The society should do its bit to provide protection to policemen who are always on their toes in safeguarding the people from anti-social elements, opined Kannada cine actor Puneet Rajkumar, here on Saturday.

Dutch utility Essent expects to see one million electric vehicles on the roads in the Netherlands by 2020, its head of new energy said on Thursday.

Alexandra van Huffelen said Essent was working with other Dutch companies to stimulate the industry, lobbying the government to speed up the introduction of electric cars and launching demonstration projects around the country.

LUCKNOW: A middle-aged man suffered burn injuries after a car which was being installed with a CNG kit caught fire here on Wednesday afternoon.
The incident was reported from Chinhat police circle.

Washington: A team of scientists has created a prototype of aspeed bump that can capture kinetic energy from vehicles passing by, to convert it into clean green electricity.

According to a Fox News report, the prototype, known as the

Sept. 8: The Delhi government is going for carbon mapping of the city in its attempt to curb pollution. Inspired by London, which has done similar carbon mapping, the Delhi government has assigned the work to Delhi University.

The combination of electric motors and diesel engines has worked well in locomotives and heavy trucks for years, but carmakers haven't been successful in getting beyond the concept car stage for light duty vehicles. Five years after I started writing about the potential for diesel hybrids, the passenger vehicle market is still relatively quiet -- but that at last may change.

New Delhi: In order to improve the transport facility within AIIMS, the institute is planning to replace its existing fleet of seven batteryoperated buses with CNG mini buses. These buses ply between the OPD block and the parking area, which is nearly a kilometre away from the OPD.

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Japan's Mitsubishi Motors Corp said on Friday it has formally signed a contract for a previously announced tie-up with France's Peugeot-Citroen in electric vehicles.

The two carmakers had agreed in March to cooperate in developing and marketing electric cars.

Under the contract, Mitsubishi Motors will supply electric cars to Peugeot-Citroen.

INDICA Vista will this year become the second electric car to be exported from India since the Maini Group started selling its Reva as G-Wiz in Europe about five years ago.