Industry
Tamil Nadu government to renovate 10 bus depots at Rs 50 croreedit
The Tamil Nadu transport department will soon renovate 10 government bus stands and depots at an estimated cost of Rs 50 crore. At a review meeting held on Friday, transport secretary B Chandramohan urged his subordinates to speed up related work and prepare a detailed action plan to refurbish 16 other depots in Chennai under the smart city project as announced earlier.
MSRTC to run e-bus on Nashik-Pune routeedit
The Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) has decided to run electric bus between Nashik and Pune in the next couple of months even as the service will be launched across the major cities simultaneously. “MSRTC has now decided to run the buses on electricity instead of fossil fuel which will cut down on the cost of import. This will be a first step towards taking up the entire fleet of buses on electricity,” MSRTC sources said.
The setting sun on India’s solar dreamsedit
In September, while speaking at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York, Prime Minister Narendra Modi committed to setting up 450 gigawatts (GW) of non-fossil fuel power by 2022. With this, he more than doubled the initial target of 175GW of green energy that his own government had set in 2018. “We must accept that if we have to overcome a serious challenge like climate change, then what we are doing at the moment is just not enough,” Modi told the audience of gathered world leaders in New York.
MEC Hyderabad gets an EV tech labedit
Mahindra Ecole Centrale (MEC) engineering college, Hyderabad, has set up an EVT (Electric Vehicle Technology) lab on its campus. “Students from all the streams of engineering at MEC will work on design, development and testing of EVs,” MEC said in a statement.
Trial run of electric bus begins in Bhubaneswaredit
The first trial run of an electric bus was carried out by Capital Region Urban Transport (CRUT) in the city on Saturday. The demo run was conducted as part of CRUT’s plan to induct 50 electric buses to its existing fleet of Mo Bus to reduce carbon footprint and give push to clean mobility in public transport system.
Fuelling clean drive: Electric vehicles get green plates in Delhiedit
Electric vehicles in Delhi have started sporting green-coloured registration plates, made mandatory by the transport department to distinguish them from fuel-run vehicles. “The Centre had recently issued an order to make it compulsory for all electric vehicles to have green registration plates. So, the new electric vehicles are coming with green plates,” a senior transport department official said. The number plates have a green background with white font for private vehicles and yellow for commercial vehicles.
How Formula E is turning out to be an incubator for India’s electric rickshawsedit
Not every advance in electric-vehicle technology takes place inside the sterile calm of a research laboratory. BMW AG, Volkswagen AG’s Audi and a Silicon Valley-based battery maker are helping push the boundaries by racing electric-powered cars through Saudi Arabia, New York, London and Seoul at speeds topping 170 mph.
Electric vehicle demand creation is job of vehicle manufacturers: Rajiv Bajajedit
As the auto industry continues to debate the dependence of electric vehicle (EV) adoption on the availability of charging network across India, the top executive at Bajaj Auto said that creation of demand for EVs and its adoption is squarely the job of the vehicle manufacturers.
International
Dubai extends free charging for electric cars for a yearedit
Dubai motorists will be able to charge their electric vehicles free of charge for another year. Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) announced the extension of the existing policy in an effort to encourage motorists to make the swap to electric vehicles and reduce carbon emissions. Drivers will be able to charge their cars for free until December 31, 2020.