True grit

Portable car

Carmageddon round the corner

Swift charge

A battery developed for electric cars can be recharged in minutes

Electric motion

Electric cars and scooters may soon be a reality on Indian roads

To wake you up

Good news for somnolent drivers: a new system that wakes them up if they are feeling drowsy on the wheels is all set to enter the market

A fused scheme

A short circuit in consumer acceptance and a punctured technology compels California to backtrackfiom launching electric cars in the state

Continental hope

A new combustion technique will make two-stroke engines -Asia's bane - cleaner

Wavy rides

October 2004

The catalytic convertor completes 30 years of cleaning vehicle exhaust

Chinese bicycles reach dead end

Forcing cars off the roads

Car manufacturers spurring battery research

The flywheel is one of the options US car makers have in the search for better batteries to run electric cars that will meet future emission …

Clean 'shocks'

CATALYTIC CLEANING

Car-ted off the roads!

Abuse of the used

Nigerian environmentalists protest against the import of second-hand vehicles from Europe

The US pulls up Toyota

Federal government seeks us $60 billion fine for faulty emission control systems

Refuel your car at home

Not a bad fad

The US takes to hybrid vehicles in a big way

Off limits

Paris set to ban SUVs

Electrifying ride

REVA leads the charge for electric vehicles in India

Green cars

Hydrogen motion

Polluters take a fall

Heavy polluters have to pay heavy fines. Truck manufacturers realise this the hard way