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 Walled City today inaugurated its first multi-level parking lot with a capacity to hold around 1,020 cars. Five more parking projects are scheduled to be completed by March-end, said Delhi Mayor Prof Rajni Abbi. The parking has been built at Parade Grounds, Subhash Marg near the historical Red Fort …
India’s biggest carmaker Maruti Suzuki has increased margins for its dealers to drive sales of petrol cars. The 8-10% rise in commission comes at a time when the company’s share in the domestic market has dipped below 40% for the first time. While Maruti will pay . 1,000 more to …
Middle-Class Puts Off Buys On Rising Home EMIs & Fuel Prices. The entry-level segment of the Indian passenger car market shrunk in 2011, perhaps for the first time in many years, and saw its market share dip below 50%. Eyed by many carmakers like Tata, Renault, Nissan, Bajaj and General …
China's monthly passenger-vehicle sales fell the most in more than seven years after an earlier-than-usual Lunar New Year holiday season deprived dealers of a week's worth of sales. Deliveries of passenger automobiles, including multipurpose and SUVs, dropped 24% from a year earlier to 1.16 million units last month, the China …
China's heavily polluted capital, Beijing, plans to reduce air pollution levels by 15 percent by 2015 and 30 percent by 2020 through phasing out old cars, relocating factories and planting new forests, state media said on Thursday. The level of air pollution in the capital varies, depending on winds. But …
Doing so has major implications for public health but moving to a market-linked fuel pricing policy makes more sense. Anumita Roychowdhuryanumita Roychowdhury Executive Director, Research and Advocacy, Centre for Science and Environment* “The additional taxes on diesel cars can generate resources to produce clean diesel for all segments to meet …
Discounts Lead To Marginal Increase In Volumes; Companies Nervously Await Budget. NewDelhi:Car sales entered the new year on a cautious note as high interest rates and petrol prices continued to suppress demand and incremental volumes flowed in from new-year discounts. Market leader Maruti Suzuki, that had witnessed a decline in …
Govt unable to acquire land for flyovers Shillong: Hopes for Shillongites to see flyovers in the city is about to come crashing to the ground with the government expressing its inability to acquire land for construction of these flyovers. “It is difficult to acquire land. Since most of the land …
The latest data put together by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) trashes the automobile industry contention that personal cars account for only 0.6 per cent of India’s diesel consumption. Estimates recently released by the Society for Indian Automobile Manufactures (SIAM) and the 12th Planning Working Group on Petroleum …
There is no slowdown in dieselisation, finds the latest analysis by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). How then, asks CSE, can the automobile industry claim that diesel cars use negligible amount of the fuel? In 2011-12, diesel cars will account for over 40 per cent of the total car …
MUMBAI: Italian carmaker Fiat and Japan's Suzuki Motor Corporation have inked an agreement to supply 1 lakh diesel engines to Maruti Suzuki India, which will help the country's largest carmaker to manufacture more engines, and thereby prune the rapidly growing waiting list. The two auto giants agreed to supply Fiat's …
Budget 2012-13 is likely to make diesel cars more expensive. Unable to move to a market-linked pricing regime for diesel due to political compulsions, the government is considering the simpler way of levying additional excise duty on diesel cars. The petroleum ministry has sent a proposal to the finance ministry …
Tokyo: For a former James Bond car, it's a chance to live twice. Japanese engineers put a new spin on an old classic car for a recent auto show, remodelling a Toyota 2000GT with solar panels and hightech gadgets to make it 100% electric and solar-powered. Heralded as Japan's first …
Alan Roger Mulally is the CEO of Ford Motors and the man credited with turning around the fortunes of the iconic US car-maker. Last week, Mulally and a few other big gun car manufacturers were in attendance at the Auto Expo in New Delhi. As huge crowds thronged the show …
NEW DELHI: Four years after it launched the entry-level sedan Swift DZire, the country's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India is bringing a shortened version of the car that will hit the market next month. Although the model will qualify for the excise duty of 10 per cent enjoyed by …
NEW DELHI: Automobile major Hyundai Motor Monday launched three new liquified petroleum gas (LPG) powered variants of its hatchback Eon D-Lite plus, Era plus and Magna plus priced between Rs.2.98 lakh and Rs.3.42 lakh. "The D-Lite plus offers a host of features, all for less than Rs.3 lakh. Similarly, Era …
NEW DELHI: The Maruti 800 and Alto, India's bestselling car models, are set to drive into the sunset as Maruti Suzuki is working on a replacement for the 800cc cars to bring in a more contemporary and fuel-efficient model. Shinzo Nakanishi, MD of Maruti Suzuki, told TOI that work is …
NEW DELHI: The Indian car industry is headed to report flat growth this financial year, after being the world's second-fastest growing market behind China in the last two years when sales zoomed 26%-30%. The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) cut car sales growth forecast for 2011-12 for the third …
A beedi company from Kerala might seem out-of-place at the country’s largest automobile show. But the Kajah Group, from Chavakkad in Thrissur, has held its own at the 11th Auto Expo as people stream into its little tent to see its latest creation — the two-seat concept, called the Kreeper. …
In an about turn from his previous proposal for an additional excise on diesel cars, Dr Kirit Parikh, has said that the annual road tax system should instead be brought back with a “differential tax” for diesel vehicles. This would also affect existing diesel cars on the road, which will …
