Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) is spending $100 million to gain an edge on German luxury rivals by entering the commodities business.
BMW is building its own carbon fibre factory, the first carmaker to do so, to secure supply of the lightweight material and lower expenses by refining the production process.
Bangalore, The Legislative Council, on Thursday, introduced battery-operated vehicles to ferry its members from the Legislators’ Home and back during legislature sessions. Going green: Legislative Council members travel in the battery-operated ferry service which was launched in Vidhana Soudha on Wednesday.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released an updated version of its “Technology Roadmaps - Electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (EV/PHEV)” report, which indicates that forecasted manufacturing of electric and hybrid vehicles is behind national targets.
The government on Thursday decided to ban import of battery-run auto-rickshaws and slap restrictions on its local production against the backdrop of widespread plying of these vehicles not considered as technically sound.
An inter-ministry meeting with the communication minister, Syed Abul Hossain, at the secretariat also directed the authorities concerned to fix the life-time of the battery-ru
The lumbering, polluting trucks that have collected garbage from French streets for years will soon become a noisy memory once a new generation of super quiet, all-electric vehicles starts making the rounds next week.
The zero-emission, made-in France trucks are still large and bulky, but they promise to pack as much punch as their cousins with a vastly reduced impact on the environment and a r
This report reviews new vehicle fuels and technologies that are likely to be commercially available within the next 10 years in the United States and other industrialized countries at a level that could result in significant population exposure.
E co Activate, a Delhi-based company, and Vodafone Essar, launched an ecofriendly vehicle called the e-rick just ahead of the Commonwealth Games. This battery-operated vehicle came in an effort to provide a pollution-free mode of transporta tion. The e-rick aims to ensure a reduced carbon footprint with zero emission and dependence on conventional fuel.
New Delhi: Sensing the growing potential of electrically-powered vehicles, New Delhi-based Hero Electric, a wholly-owned electric two-wheeler subsidiary of the Munjals-promoted Hero Group, plans to use the electric platform to roll out three-wheelers and other speciality vehicles.
