The technical challenges of making better batteries, and therefore, electric vehicles, are enormous and the fantasy of better battery science doesn’t match reality.
China’s electric-vehicle component industry is booming and likely to find a place in every potential car champion. Even Elon Musk had to finally turn to China for Tesla's production.
Automakers are finding the cost of electric vehicle tough to digest, especially after Covid. Hybrids are one compliance solution, if not necessarily the technology transition.
A flaw affecting a plug-in hybrid SUV in Europe will keep Ford from complying with tougher emissions standards this year. BMW and Hyundai are recalling tens of thousands of cars.
Countries have already started banning petrol cars, but we need to ensure there is enough infrastructure to handle an increasing number of electric vehicles.
Transport accounts for 23 per cent of global energy-related greenhouse emissions. But existing electrification technology could cut down these emissions by 2050.
Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
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