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Saturday, September 20, 2025
TopicElectric vehicles

Topic: electric vehicles

Everyone wants a used BluSmart EV. It’s Delhi’s biggest fire sale

BluSmart’s collapse has flooded thousands of EVs into Delhi’s resale market. Reels promise Rs 50,000 bargains, sellers are swamped, and complaints get a blunt ‘take it or leave it’.

Outdated tech, low investment, limited private presence push India to import copper—think tank report

The country must explore and extract more copper, as large resources and reserves lie unexplored and hence not mined, says Centre for Social and Economic Progress

Space, comfort, practicality—MPVs are the growing choice for Indian families

The growth of the Indian car market over the past decade has been largely driven by young, first-time car owners. Now as those buyers grow older and expand their families, they need a car with more space.

Think tank uses real time traffic data to pinpoint biggest polluters, maps blueprint to cut emissions

Report by The Infravision Foundation is the first pilot study to use data from Intelligent Traffic Management System (ITMS), and used Noida’s Mahamaya flyover area as a case study.

Import duties, Trump, and Tesla—India’s auto sector caught in the crossfire

Indian auto manufacturers have expressed concern over slashing import tariffs on EVs and have requested for a gradual reduction to 30 per cent rather than dramatic cuts.

China’s BYD is making waves with 5-min EV charging. And this Indian energy startup isn’t far behind

Exponent Energy, an EV charging & energy company in India, unveiled its 1 megawatt (MW) indigenous charging technology for electric buses on 19 March. It is also planning a 1.5MW tech.

India’s shift to EV is making China richer. Over $7 bn paid in 5 years

India is moving full throttle towards an EV transition, which is being powered by Chinese components. Experts warn India risks becoming an ‘EV colony’ of its neighbour.

Economic survey outlines how Chinese dependence may impact India’s energy transition & EV incentives

While India’s green energy transition plans to combat climate change are ‘ambitious’, reliance on China makes these plans complex & challenging, says Economic Survey 2024-25.

Electric trains to begin operations in Tripura by February

Launched in 2022, the Rs 46 crore electrification project includes establishment of 3 traction power substations that are likely to be completed by next month.

ADB lends $10 million to boost electric motorcycles in Indonesia

ADB provides funding to increase supply of e-motorcycles and battery swapping stations.

On Camera

Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.