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Oil storage tanks and facilities of a Sinopec plant in Shanghai, China. Photo for representational purpose | Photo Credit: Reuters As the Israel-US war on Iran has meandered on, India has faced the shortage of liquified petroleum gas (LPG) and experienced a social panic over the possible shortage of petrol and diesel. One does not…
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Union Minister Nitin Gadkari addresses the ‘20th FICCI Higher Education Summit 2025’, at Bharat Mandapam, in New Delhi, on October 6, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday (October 6, 2025) said the prices of electric vehicles (EVs) in India are expected to be on par with…
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In the last episode, my colleague and host of Climate Economy, Kunal Shankar, spoke about the shifts underway in India’s transport sector, as it attempts to decarbonise. One among the many places where this transition is likely to be felt most is Coimbatore. That’s because this district is home to many of the smaller firms…
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New Delhi: Kartikey Hariyani, the founder and CEO of Electric vehicle (EV) charging network Charge Zone, while speaking at NDTV World Summit 2024, explained why switching to EV makes Sense. “In India, the purpose of an EV or a car is for personal mobility. 80 percent of the mobility requirement of an Indian consumer is…
New Delhi: Kartikey Hariyani, the founder and CEO of Electric vehicle (EV) charging network Charge Zone, while speaking at NDTV World Summit 2024, explained why switching to EV makes Sense. “In India, the purpose of an EV or a car is for personal mobility. 80 percent of the mobility requirement of an Indian consumer is…
Daily Quiz: On H2 fuel and batteries Nobel laureate, who was the lithium-ion battery pioneer. It is this technology that is used in electric cars and laptops. START THE QUIZ Published – September 06, 2024 05:00 pm IST Read Comments Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn WhatsApp Reddit Source link
For Hamed al-Rafidain, a Saudi human resources worker, an electric vehicle offers welcome savings, especially since his other car is a fuel-guzzling four-wheel drive favoured by motorists in the desert kingdom. The 39-year-old is part of a small but growing EV consumer base in Saudi Arabia, which hopes to become a hub for the technology…
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Two people ride past the Red Fort in New Delhi on March 25, 2022, on Ather electric scooters. Representative image. | Photo Credit: Ather Energy/Unsplash The impulse to be sustainable — driven by the incessant pressure to lower our emissions — often manifests as lowering consumption and increasing reuse alongside reforms like tweaking consumer behaviour….
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U.S. President Joe Biden | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled a bundle of steep tariff increases on an array of Chinese imports including electric vehicles, computer chips and medical products, risking an election-year standoff with Beijing in a bid to woo voters who give his economic policies low marks. Mr….
India’s Finance Minister announced a new scheme to develop deep tech for defence purposes while presenting the Interim Budget for 2024-25. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR For tech-savvy youth, a corpus of ₹1 lakh crore will be established with 50-year interest free loans for providing long term financing or refinancing with long tenures and low…