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A team formed to manage transportation service in Pokhara has advised bringing pollution-free vehicles to use in order to mitigate the havoc caused by vehicular emission in the city, of late.

President Barack Obama is moving ahead to increase fuel efficiency standards.

Solar powered vehicles like scooters, three-wheelers and cars will be exhibited at the Auto Expo-2014

A China-based solar-powered scooter and car maker is eyeing the Indian market by showcasing its products at an auto exhibition here this week, a company official said Tuesday.

Researchers have discovered a method to re-use discarded shopping bags by transforming them into a fuel that can power car engines.

Electric vehicles are not a mitigation option unless electricity is cleaned up and these together with smart grids & renewables can provide a solution for this says P R Shukla in this paper presented at the Development and Mitigation forum held at Cape Town from 27-29 January 2014. Read full text.

China, under pressure to reduce air pollution, renewed subsidies for individual purchases of electric vehicles for three years, without including hybrid models among new-energy vehicles that qualif

Compliance and enforcement programs aim to ensure that, even after a period of use, vehicle emissions of criteria pollutants (primarily particulates, nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons, and carbon monoxide) do not exceed the original certification standards.

The Electric Vehicles Initiative (EVI) and the International Energy Agency (IEA) have launched the Global EV Outlook representing two years of data gathering and analysis of electric vehicle stock/sales and charging station deployment.

The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) had carried out source apportionment studies in the year 2007 in six cities namely Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Kanpur, Mumbai and Pune.

The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is organising a three-day orientation programme at New Delhi from September 25 – 27, 2012 for policy makers from different cities of India and South Asia.

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