Fuel Efficiency

Reply affidavit on behalf of the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) regarding state of groundwater in Haryana, 03/05/2025

Reply affidavit on behalf of the Central Ground Water Board in the matter of Suo Moto case titled "Haryana 60.48% groundwater over exploited Kurukshetra worst Jhajjar best says" appearing in the Tribune, January 8, 2025. The CGWA report, May 3, 2025 addresses the issue of groundwater exploitation and violation of …

Future trucks: Cleaning up the kings of the road

Super-streamlining, pothole power and heat recycling: a spate of innovation is about to transform diesel-guzzling trucks into green giants.

LG U.S. Plant To Support 250,000 Electric Cars

LG Chem Ltd will have the capacity to build battery cells that could support up to 250,000 electric vehicles in the United States when its first U.S. plant becomes fully operational in 2013, the chief of the U.S. unit said on Thursday. Compact Power, the Michigan-based unit of South Korea's …

U.S. Awards $600 Mln In Car Battery Grants

Companies working with Ford Motor Co (F.N), Chrysler Group and General Motors Corp [GM.UL] received more than $600 million on Wednesday to further development of batteries for hybrids and electric cars. The awards were part of $2.4 billion in grants being announced by the Obama administration as part of its …

U.S. refiners see shakeout under climate change bill

Ailing U.S. oil refiners could face a crippling period of contraction under a House-approved climate change bill, making the country more dependent on imported refined products. The so-called cap-and-trade bill narrowly passed by the House of Representatives in June would limit greenhouse gas emissions by requiring polluters to acquire permits …

Hyundai To Invest $3 Billion In Green Projects By 2013

Hyundai Motor Group, the world's No.5 automaker, said on Wednesday it would invest $3.3 billion in green projects to meet the government's stricter fuel efficiency and emission requirements, joining a recent series of eco-friendly investments by South Korean firms. Hyundai, which includes the country's two largest car makers -- Hyundai …

Carbon-lean economics (Editorial)

India should pare emissions not just to help in the war against global warming but because being carbon-lean also makes eminent economic sense. Kicking and screaming, India, the fourth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in terms of absolute volumes, is being dragged into the global campaign to limit carbon emissions. …

Pee power: Hydrogen from urine to fuel cars?

Scientists have combined refuelling your car and relieving yourself by creating a new catalyst that can extract hydrogen from urine. The catalyst could not only fuel the hydrogen-powered cars of the future, but could also help clean up municipal wastewater, physorg.com reported on Monday. Gerardine Botte of Ohio University uses …

Greens still stuck at red light

Pranab Mukherjee missed the target by a mile in a bid to, as he said,

India cashing in on Europes green drive

INDIAN CARMAKERS SEE HUGE PROFITS IN FUEL EFFICIENCY INITIATIVES OF FRANCE, GERMANY & UK Chanchal Pal Chauhan NEW DELHI INDIAN carmakers are reaping the benefits of the incentives offered by the governments of Germany, France and the UK to people exchanging their old cars for new fuel-efficient ones. The country

EPA Approves California Auto Emissions Standard

The Obama administration on Tuesday approved California's long-standing bid to set its own tough standards for vehicle emissions, a decision in tune with a national plan to boost fuel efficiency and reduce greenhouse gases linked to climate change. These standards are immediately effective for California and for 13 other states …

CO2 emission reduction in transport

This report is meant to contribute to the debate between policymakers and research groups on the steps that need to be taken to meet long-term climate targets. This reports shows that the current focus on intermediate targets for the year 2020 needs to be extended to include the long-term targets. …

Obama steps on accelerator

Goes for auto emission cuts from far behind in the race us president Barack Obama has set in motion a national policy that is expected to make cars and trucks in the country 30 per cent more fuel efficient by 2016. The policy is also expected to cut 900 million …

Ban SUVs, electrify world

New Delhi: If the current fleet of 25-40 million gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles in the US were to shift to more fuel-efficient cars such as those in Europe, more than 1.6 billion people in the world living in the dark can be given electricity without any major increase in the …

Star labelling for fuel efficient cars ?

K. Venkateshwarlu HYDERABAD: The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) is planning to extend its popular

Ford Among First to Get Loans for More Efficient Cars

Three automakers, including the Ford Motor Company, will get the first $8 billion from a $25 billion loan program intended to accelerate development of more fuel-efficient vehicles, the national energy secretary said Tuesday. Ford, the only Detroit automaker that did not receive emergency government loans this year, will get $5.9 …

Bajaj Auto launches Pulsar 220 cc bike

NEW DELHI: Bajaj Auto on Tuesday launched the new Pulsar 220 cc bike, which gives 21.04 PS of power and is priced at Rs. 70,000. It has also developed a new series of fuel efficient engine and plans to introduce two new bikes this year. Addressing a press conference here, …

Bajaj unveils world's 'most fuel efficient' engine

Rajiv BajajThe second-largest motorcycle manufacturer in the country, Bajaj Auto, today unveiled the second generation or version 2.0 of the DTS

Stars to rate car efficiency

Hyderabad, June 19: Indian cars will soon have a

Biofuels To The Fore In Fight To Reduce Emissions

Biofuels could be used to replace jet fuel in less than five years following recent tests by plane-maker Boeing, while the industry says it is putting billions of dollars into improving its environmental impact. Boeing's director for environmental strategy Billy Glover told Reuters that results from recent test flights using …

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