100 electric vehicle charging stations to be set up in Sirmaur In a bid to encourage plying of electric vehicles (EVs), as many as 100 charging stations would be set up in Sirmaur district. Deputy Commissioner, Sirmaur, RK Gautam, has directed all sub-divisional magistrates to identify places where such stations would be stationed. “All SDMs […]
Canada Bans Fossil-Fuel Vehicles And HEVs 5 Years In Advance to Accelerate Carbon Reduction
In order to construct a new economy that withstands climate change, the Government of Canada has announced that the country will comprehensively ban the sales of fossil fuel vehicles by 2035. It also proposed a stricter standard that requires all vehicles to be zero-emission by then, which means that HEVs will also be banned at […]
China’s capital envisages 10,000 fuel cell vehicles by 2025
China is the world’s largest green house gas emitter but is aiming for carbon-neutrality by 2060. At the end of 2020, China had fewer than 10,000 trucks and buses powered by hydrogen. The city of Beijing aims to have over 10,000 fuel cell vehicles on the road and build 74 hydrogen filling stations by 2025, […]
Indian Oil Corp prepares to make vehicles run on clean hydrogen in 2022
IOC’s R&D division is also in the process of closing a tender to generate clean hydrogen and demonstrate running of vehicles with this fuel In October 2020, Indian Oil’s R&D centre had announced that it developed a patented compact reforming process for H-CNG production directly from natural gas. Indian Oil Corporation’s research and development (R&D) […]
Unfit 20-year-old personal vehicle to be scrapped from June 2024
NEW DELHI: Announcing the vehicle scrapping policy, road transport minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said more than 20 year old personal vehicles will be de-registered from June 1, 2024, if they fail in an automated fitness test or their registration certificate is not renewed. Similarly, 15 year-plus commercial vehicles will be deregistered from April 1, […]
Focus on RWAs to promote electric vehicles
The MLAs, RWAs and citizens of adjoining neighbourhoods need to work together to plan and engage local authorities to ensure a smooth transition to electric vehicles,” said Gahlot. NEW DELHI: Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot on Sunday appealed to all Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) to come together to make the Delhi government’s Switch Delhi campaign a […]
Explainer Future Power How is Australia travelling with the switch to electric cars?
Electric cars will become a part of the power grid one day – and many countries are speeding ahead with uptake. So why is Australia stuck in the slow lane? Powering up his local government’s car fleet with electric vehicles is one way for Canterbury Bankstown mayor Khal Asfour to deliver on his council’s climate […]
Apple to invest $3.6 billion in Kia to make EVs
The iPhone maker plans to set up production with Kia and build Apple cars at the automaker’s facility in Georgia, U.S., the newspaper said. The companies may sign a deal on Feb. 17 and aim to introduce Apple cars in 2024, according to the report, which said they have an initial target to produce […]
Govt paving way for entry of E-20 vehicles in 5 years
Sources said to push the move towards production, the government has also set up a committee of three Union ministers comprising Nitin Gadkari, Dharmendra Pradhan and Piyush Goyal NEW DELHI : The government is aiming to ensure E-20 vehicles running on fuel blended with 20% ethanol enter the market by 2025, sources said. Cabinet secretary […]
The Importance of Selling Electric Vehicles and Their Batteries Separately
An electric car connected to a charging station, in Birmingham, UK. Photo: ell-r-brown/Flickr, CC BY 2.0. The roads have been cleared for a surge in two- and three-wheeled electric vehicles (EVs). On August 12, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) published a notification allowing the sale and registration of EVs without batteries. The […]
