The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, (MoRTH) on March 15, 2024, notified the Central Motor Vehicles (Registration and Functions of Vehicle Scrapping Facility) Amendment Rules, 2024 to further amend the Motor Vehicles (Registration and Functions of Vehicle Scrapping Facility) Rules, 2021. The following has been stated: In rule 5,- …
Electric vehicles are suffering a setback because of the policies of the Nepal government, which is discouraging their import and use. This charge was levelled by entrepreneurs who met at a seminar organised by the Environment Sector Programme Support (ESPS) and the Electrical Vehicle Association Nepal (EVAN). They also pointed …
When the Supreme Court had ordered the Delhi government to run its buses on cng (compressed natural gas), the directive was sought to be circumvented on the pretext that natural gas technology was not proven and options available were too few. The wide variety of new generation alternative fuel vehicles …
Britain has failed to meet the April 21 deadline to comply with the European Union's (eu) directive on recycling cars. In fact, the uk isn't alone in non-adherence to the time schedule, with most eu member nations lagging behind. Even as they are in the process of changing their laws …
There seems to be no light at either end of this tunnel, what with a chain of protests being sparked off recently. First Italy filed a complaint against France with the European Commission for its refusal to open the Mont Blanc tunnel to heavy vehicles. Consequently, France allowed trucks with …
in a completely divergent move from the us President's rejection of the Kyoto Protocol last year, the California state senate has passed a new bill on regulating greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions. The bill aims to regulate emissions of heat-trapping gases such as carbon dioxide from passenger cars and light-duty trucks. …
Bangladesh will ban vehicles with two-stroke engines by September 2002. Besides, the country has asked all vehicles in Dhaka and Chittagong to be converted to compressed natural gas (CNG). The government is planning to increase the use of natural gas in the transport and industrial sectors. It plans to set …
in the Compressed Natural Gas (cng) race Pakistan seems to have left India behind. Figures show that Pakistan today boasts of more than 2,00,000 cng vehicles and 200 filling stations. Around two years ago Pakistan had less than 1,00,000 cng vehicles, which have doubled today. The numbers are expected to …
the National Highway authority of India (NHAI) is all set to destroy the green canopy of trees along the Rao Tula Ram Marg near the airport in Delhi. This stretch is lined with neem, eucalyptus, seesam, peepal and badh trees. The forest department has advised the NHAI to desist from …
taking its cue from Delhi, the Karnataka government has banned all transport vehicles that are over 15 years old. The state transport department regulation, which came into force from April 1, 2002, forms a part of the authorities' efforts to curb vehicular pollution in the metropolis. Another such measure is …
soon motorists in Britain will be charged a congestion tax. The proposed tax aims to declog traffic and depollute the streets of London. Mayor Ken Livingstone said a daily charge of us $7 would be levied on motorists driving into the heart of the capital between 7 am. and 6.30 …
at least 27 million vehicles are junked every year. Ever wondered what happens to them? Studies show that they spawn an environmental disaster that governments are finding difficult to handle. The European Union (eu ) has taken the lead in reversing this trend. From April 21, 2002, with the implementation …
oceanographer William P Dillon likes to surprise visitors to his lab by taking ordinary-looking ice balls and setting them on fire. "They're easy to light. You just put a match to them and they will go,' says Dillon, a researcher with the us Geological Survey (usgs) in Woods Hole, Massachusettes. …
As we have often said before, the Indian automobile industry has come of age. But in terms of environmental management, even the giants prefer to remain greenhorns. This is reflected in the last auto fair that took place in the capital. Ostensibly, they talked about "going green'. Yet none of …
TWO-WHEELERS are Asia"s biggest challenge with most countries in the region being deluged with pollution from the huge number of them. Even where countries have tried, and tried hard to clean up their act, the pollution nightmare is not ending. Countries like India and Taiwan have armed themselves with the …
TAIWAN: The emissions recall programme is operative in Taiwan since 1996. It detects vehicles that due to inherent defects in design and components fail, while on road, to meet the standards. The Environment Protection Administration of Taiwan (Taiwan EPA) organises surveillance tests of five sample vehicles of a particular engine …
Many Asian countries are clamping down with tighter in-use standards, junking polluting cars, giving incentives to replace old vehicles and restricting numbers. CHINA: By July 2000, about 37 cities have stopped issuing new licenses for motorcycles. In 21 cities, only limited licenses were issued, says Wang Song Qin, of Motor …
THE crisis is staring us in the face. Two-wheelers will drive the fate of Asia"s clean air challenge. The question now is in what direction will technology move in ? One option is to continue improving the conventional two and three-wheeler engines to ensure they meet the emission standards today …
THE World Trade Organisation (WTO) regime threatens to shake the Asian market. Today, the market is divided between countries that produce and those that import. But WTO will act as a leveller in the market. Since it disallows trade barriers and ordains uniform laws for domestic manufacturers and the importers, …
On the key environmental challenge for two-wheelers It will be necessary to find ways to achieve further emission reductions. But the new technologies may add to the complexity and cost of the vehicles. Does the Indian industry believe more in survival and less in leadership? I do not agree with …
The challenge faced by pollution planners is literally to find ways to measure the particulate pollution from two-wheelers. As yet little has been done. One study done In the US finds that particulate emissions from two-stroke engines are rich in toxic volatile organic fraction, and particulates, says Michael Walsh, citing …
