Vehicles registered before 1975 which are often kept as exhibits and brand new vehicles do not need to go through the Vehicle Emission Testing (VET) Progamme to get the annual license, Motor Traffic Commissioner General Bandulage Wijeratne said.

The Environment and Natural Resources Ministry, the Transport Ministry and the Motor Traffic Commissioner

The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources held a press briefing yesterday to announce the new developments and improvements with regard to the reduction of harmful emissions from vehicles in the country.

Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood, one that strikes the poor disproportionately. Up to one-third of children living in inner-city public housing have allergic asthma, in which a specific allergen sets off a cascade of events that cause characteristic inflammation, airway constriction and wheezing.

Chrysler LLC on Monday named US-based A123 Systems as the supplier of batteries for its first electric vehicles slated for debut in showrooms 2010.

A123 will supply next-generation lithium-ion vehicles for a range of Chrysler's electric vehicles under development, and plans a facility in Michigan to manufacture battery cells, modules and packs, the two companies said.

Itanagar: President Pratibha Patil left behind her limousine and used a small electric car to go around the Raj Bhavan grounds while on a visit here last week.

As the presidential entourage was getting ready to leave for a forward post called Kibithu near the Sino-Indian border on Friday, an India-made

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France's Renault and Japan's Nissan will supply electric cars to the Irish market within two years as part of a government plan to have 10 percent of vehicles electric by 2020, Ireland's Energy Minister said on Friday.

"Today's initiative will transform our streets, will cut carbon emissions and change the face of transport in Ireland," Minister Eamon Ryan said.

- Two-decade study reveals link between male infertility and vehicle pollution

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