It will use lithium ion batteries
Battery charging stations needed

SHAH ALAM: A Dutch company announced plans on Tuesday to produce affordable electric cars by the end of 2009, promising that they would be much more powerful than existing models and have zero emissions.

Detroit Electric is in negotiations with Malaysia

M. Dinesh Varma

The country

Mon Sep 1, 2008 12:52am EDT

TOKYO (Reuters) - A sudden slowdown in car sales in China and India is threatening to shrink the global auto market this year, promising tougher times for an industry leaning on the two most populous countries to pick up the slack in the West.

Early this year, industry executives had been optimistic that demand in the world's second- and 11th-largest car markets would charge ahead, despite fallout spreading from the U.S. credit crisis.

Bs Reporter / Kolkata September 2, 2008, 0:26 IST

Stronger indications of a solution to the land acquisition impasse at the Tata Motors factory complex in Singur emerged today after Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said at Writers

SHANGHAI: A sharp drop in first-half profit at the biggest Chinese carmaker underlined how slowing economic growth and higher .fuel prices are putting the brakes on the Chinese auto sector.

TRINAMOOL MEETS WEST BENGAL GOVERNOR
Bs Reporter / Kolkata September 1, 2008, 0:27 IST

The impasse at Singur caused by the indefinite protest in front of Tata Motors Nano-manufacturing plant by the Trinamool Congress and its allies under Mamata Banerjee seemed to have moved closer to a resolution today even as Tata Motors indicated it would not send its workers and officers to the plant site on September 1.

Tata threatens to make the world

Toyota Motor Corp cut its 2009 vehicle sales forecast by nearly 7 percent as high fuel prices hammer demand for large cars and pickup trucks, and said it will speed up the rollout of hybrid and electric cars as their popularity grows.

The weaker outlook from the world's most profitable carmaker weighed on shares of European rivals and highlighted an increasingly difficult environment, where orders in the United States and Western Europe for high-margin, gas-thirsty vehicles is slumping.

New Delhi, Aug. 27: The Tata Motors may face penalty or premium for excess emissions from its high-end Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles when a stringent environment law is enforced in Europe in 2012.

In an initiative aimed at reducing CO2 emissions from new passenger cars by 19 per cent, the European Commission had adopted a proposal for legislation in December 2007.

The manufacturers can, however, make cars with emissions above the permitted limits, but have to balance by vehicles which emit less than the set standards.

KOLKATA: The political agitation at Singur near the Tata Motors project site cast its shadow on the operations of another automobile company, that of Hindustan Motors Ltd.

The C. K. Birla group company on Wednesday put up a notice at its factory gate shutting down its production for a day.

An official spokesperson of the C. K. Birla group (which controls HM) said that the factory had advanced its weekly off from Saturday to Wednesday in view of the congestion on the Durgapur Expressway.