Reply on behalf of the Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) in response to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order September 12, 2024. The matter related to the news item titled "People are breathing in cancer-causing chemicals in their cars study find" appearing in NDTV.com dated May 8, 2024. ARAI …
The state-of-the-art facility can accommodate more than 1,400 cars By asking you to ‘Let your car wait in style', Capital Point, the city's newest automated multi-level car park near Connaught Place, seems to be all about providing comfort for your car. Flanked by Hanuman Mandir and Gurdwara Bangla Sahib on …
The order book is nothing to be happy about and the long waiting period of the past is all but over. Eight of the 12 top-selling diesel cars are now available off the shelf, indicating that slowdown has started to impact sales of diesel cars as well. A 5-6% increase …
Carmakers will have to slash the carbon emissions of new cars sold in Europe by a third by 2020, according to leaked European Commission documents seen by the Guardian. The EC proposals would be legally binding and the document plans for even stricter emissions targets for 2025 and 2030, which …
Auto-makers favour hike in prices of diesel and oppose higher excise duty on diesel cars The finance ministry has asked auto-makers to provide production and sales data of diesel vehicles, even as the industry protested any move to raise excise duty on such vehicles, citing country’s fragile economic environment. Unable …
New Delhi Urging the government not to raise excise duty on diesel cars, top executives of country's leading automobile firms met the finance ministry officials on Wednesday. The finance ministry, which has been mulling over imposing additional levy on diesel vehicles, in the meantime has asked automakers to provide production …
With car ridership set to boom by 106 per cent, Delhi's air pollution and congestion crisis is bound to worsen, warns a survey by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). Calling for transport planning that hinges on sustainability, equity, and a people-centric approach, the CSE survey, released on World Environment …
“At this rate, the Capital will be gasping for breath by 2021” Delhi's air quality is worsening and if urgent action is not taken we will have a serious problem at hand, warns Centre for Science and Environment's latest report card. “The summer of 2012 is a grim reminder of …
New Delhi: Delhi’s air pollution levels are on an upward spiral with this summer having recorded higher of ozone and particulate matter. Simultaneously, levels of carbon dioxide emitted from vehicles have also shown a steady sharp rise. Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) says that apart from a rise in …
In the wake of a marked preference of personal vehicle owners, more so after the hike in petrol prices, the Finance Ministry is having a re-look at the Petroleum Ministry's proposal to hike the excise levy duty on diesel cars so as to disincentivise consumption of the subsidised transportation fuel. …
On World Environment Day, this report card from Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) warns that Delhi's air pollution and congestion crisis will worsen this decade if urgent action is not taken and calls for radical improvements in public transport. On this World Environment Day, Centre for Science and Environment …
If policymakers are to succeed in their efforts to foster economic growth, improve public health, and protect the environment, they need to know which policies work, which don’t, and why. Various modeling efforts have tried to determine which technologies can increase vehicle efficiency, but comparatively little research has focused on …
KOLKATA, 30 MAY: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has increased its earnings from car parking by Rs 82 lakh in 2011-12. A senior civic official said revenue increased following a series of drives against illegal car parking and the racket that operates it. The KMC had earned Rs 6.40 crore …
With customers looking for cheaper mobility options, demand for two-wheelers is likely to go up. The runaway petrol price, which has singed many, has found an unexpected beneficiary in the Indian auto market: motorcycles and scooters. With customers looking for cheaper mobility options over pricier cars following the steepest-ever jump …
Petroleum minister S. Jaipal Reddy on Monday said that the government was not looking at dual pricing for diesel as it was not practical to be implemented. Under dual mechanism, trucks and buses will gets subsidised diesel, where as cars and SUVs will have to pay higher prices for diesel. …
Amid widening price difference between petrol and diesel, the Finance Ministry is looking at the possibility of raising excise duty on diesel cars, a suggestion which was mooted long back by the Oil Ministry. "Hiking excise duty on diesel cars is still on the agenda. It was not taken up …
New Delhi: Even as chief minister Sheila Dikshit hinted at marginal relief for Delhiites from the petrol price hike, environmentalists are not amused. They continue to be a worried bunch and their fears are not unfounded, for petrol getting out of reach for many people means there will be more …
Companies expedite plans to roll out more models to meet demand Carmakers are fast-tracking their diesel vehicle plans and planning offers to push petrol cars as the latest petrol price increase is set to accelerate India’s race to become a diesel market. The widening petrol-diesel price differential over the last …
Japanese carmaker Honda may roll out its first diesel car in India in the first half of 2013 as the fresh increase in petrol price is widely expected to dent demand for petrol cars, three people familiar with the development said. “The earlier plan was to bring in the diesel …
New Delhi: Expect the discounts on petrol cars to get sweeter, and the waiting list on diesel cars to be longer. The steep Rs 7.50-hike in petrol price is set to further fuel the demand for diesel models as the fuel’s lower running cost and steady pricing will add to …
With petrol prices hiked again today and fears remaining about price volatility of the deregulated fuel, auto manufacturers in the country are expecting a jump in demand for diesel-driven passenger vehicles. Oil marketing companies, reeling under huge losses due to high crude price in the international market and the rupee …
