Lax global laws let the rich junk polluting vehicles in low-income nations

Rich nations are dumping their old, used and close-to-being-scrapped vehicles in low-income vehicle importing countries of Africa and South Asia …

Clean fuel cars

Hybrid sales could comprise 20 per cent of the vehicle sales by 2010

The smog will remain

Transport ministry wants early review of National Auto Fuel Policy to highlight obstacles

Toxic fallout

Pollution in news on April 17

Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and developments around pollution

Engineer the end

By 2025, the number of End of Life Vehicles in India is estimated to reach over 21 million. Here's how we can manage them efficiently and effectively

असुविधाजनक शोध क्यों रोकता है कारपोरेट जगत?

कीटनाशक विषाक्तता पर शोध न के बराबर हुआ है। वायु प्रदूषण पर किए जा रहे शोधों से निपटने के लिए भी यही रणनीति अपनाई ...

इलेक्ट्रिक वाहन: शून्य उत्सर्जन

वैश्विक ऑटोमोबाइल बेड़ा जैविक ईंधन को पीछे छोड़कर आगे बढ़ रहा है। भारत ने भी इस ओर अपनी रुचि दिखाई है लेकिन उसके पास ...

NaMo budget on transport and pollution: Green expectations - Dashed hopes

NDAÔÇÖs maiden budget upholds and supports UPAII blunders to protect the automobile industry while ignoring the perils of …

Are signs on the wall signalling the death of diesel cars?

Mayors of 20 European cities have signed a petition to the European Union denouncing a loophole in diesel cars’ pollution limits

BS-IV checkmate

The country has a massive problem of older and more polluting vehicles. But why should this be an argument for delaying transition?

Auto Expo review: diesel, electric cars dictated trends

Electric and electric hybrid cars still stuck in concept stage

United emission norms

Eight countries decide that it is time to have uniform standards for vehicular emissions

Raise tax on diesel cars

Proliferating diesel cars are a public health risk and drain the exchequer

Diesel price hike: no scope for roll back

'Not raising diesel prices would harm economy much more'

Fuel economy standards: a non-starter

Proposed fuel economy standards for cars are so lax that some carmakers can get away by not doing anything for the first few years. This can …