According to Gandhi, power becomes decentralised when each wheel is independent. But the last thing you want in a car is a wheel doing its own thing, especially at speed.
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’.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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