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 …
Bajaj Auto, which is planning to launch its low-cost car by 2011, said any financial or other constraints faced by its partners, Renault-Nissan, will not affect implementation of the project, but did not rule out some adjustments in the schedule.
Cars may drive growth and aspirations, but they can never meet the commuting needs of urban India. Cars choke cities, harm public health and guzzle more oil. More than a half of our cities, especially the smaller ones, are getting smothered by critical levels of pollution and congestion.
New Delhi: Lower interest rates and increased retail finance saw car and bike sales driving to a healthy terrain in February after months of slowdown. Car sales registered a 22% growth at 1.15 lakh units against 94,757 units in February last year. According to data of Society of Indian Automobile …
Maruti Best-Seller To Either Take Price Cut Or Get A New, Souped-Up Avatar Sumit Chaturvedi NEW DELHI MARUTI Suzuki could slash the price of its largest-selling model, Alto, as it looks to take on the Nano, the world
Geneva: Get ready for the next generation of fuel efficient cars. A slew of green technologies that use less fuel and pollute lesser, along with alternatives like electric vehicles, are on display at the Geneva Auto Show this year. What
Geneva: After launching in India on March 23, the Tata Nano will hit the European market by 2011, group chairman Ratan Tata announced at the Geneva Auto Show on Tuesday.
Recently, many people use automobiles more than necessary. In local cities especially, the modal share of automobiles is overwhelmingly high. Furthermore, such cities are becoming automobile-dependent. It is necessary to restrain this tendency in consideration of future social needs. For this study, the authors conducted a questionnaire survey of Toyota …
The present study examined the relationship between urban land use and car transportation. The results derived from applications of the structural equations modeling revealed that suburbanization directly caused a proportional increase in car ownership and construction of roads, and in turn, indirectly increased the carbon dioxide emissions from cars. This …
This report seeks to examine the merits of a range of different policies that offer the prospect of CO2 emissions reduction from road transport. In particular it considers the role of policies that target the
Date: 18-Feb-09 Country: ISRAEL Author: Ari Rabinovitch KIBBUTZ SAMAR - Israeli energy company AORA wants to prove it doesn't have to be sunny for a solar power plant to make electricity. Like weaning a car from total dependence on fuel, the answer, it says, is to go hybrid. Their idea …
MOVE TO ENCOURAGE VEHICLES WITH BETTER FUEL ECONOMY & ALLOW WIDER CHOICE TO BUYERS, FEELS DHI Sushmi Dey & Dheeraj Tiwari NEW DELHI ANEW law requiring auto makers to get green ratings which will measure the energy efficiency of the cars they produce is planned by the year-end, a government …
Dario Hidalgo, transport expert with the Washington-based World Resources Institute Center for Sustainable Transport, has done an in-depth assessment of the Delhi BRT. Says the Delhi BRT has succeeded in meeting some of its key objectives, though it is still in an evolving phase. It has a lot of promise …
New Delhi: A Supreme Court panel on environment has suggested tax measures and integration of public transport systems of satellite townships to decongest the NCR and reduce vehicular pollution, even as it noted that cars have taken up most of the public space in the Capital. In a meeting with …
The rising level of pollution because of the influx of cars in the Capital has also been a cause of concern for Delhi High Court. While hearing a public interest litigation challenging the New Delhi Municipal Council's directive to ban cycle rickshaws in parts of the city, the Court slammed …
The debate about the future of the U.S. automobile industry exemplifies the shortcomings of U.S. public discussion about large-scale technological change. The auto industry has been widely vilified in recent months, with public opinion running strongly against government financial support for it. There has been an insistence on
Immediate sign of the mobility crisis in our cities is paralyzing congestion, -- crawling traffic and high pollution levels. Mounting global evidence shows that this imposes high costs on urban communities. This can be around 2 - 3 per cent of the GDP. In many cities congestion occurs during the …
The average emissions from new cars registered in the EU in 2007 amounted to 158g CO2/km, 15.1% below the 1995 starting point of 186 g CO2/km7. The emission level dropped by 1.23% from 2004 to 2005, by 0.6% from 2005 to 2006 and by 1.25% from 2006 to 2007. The …
Car makers told displaying fuel efficiency now mandatory AFTER years of prolonged inter-ministerial battle, the Centre recently reached a consensus to have mandatory fuel economy standards and a labelling programme for cars to improve their fuel efficiency. The conflict was on what would be the nature of the regulations and …
Electric-Car doubters often say that a vehicle like the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, intended to drive most of its miles on batteries charged from the power grid, is effectively powered by coal. While that is a vast oversimplification, it contains a germ of truth
