Diesel fumes and your health: Volkswagen cover-up shows we need to test local cars

Diesel exhaust fumes are a known cause of lung cancer and may cause bladder cancer

New motorbike technology bids goodbye to the carburettor

Bikes go cleaner with fuel injection

Bumps on road fuel cars

Small car revolution Who cares about congestion, pollution

The ultra-cheap small cars in the pipeline will tilt the skewed balance against public transport and two-wheelers irretrievably. The result will …

Mercedes Benz to pay EPA for failing to disclose defects in air pollution standards

Fuel inefficient India heading towards energy crisis

Energy insecurity is India's latest tryst with her post-liberalised destiny. It began in July 2006. Crude oil prices rose to all time peak, at US $…

No new Bharat Stage III vehicles from April 1, orders SC

The Supreme Court has banned registration of new Bharat Stage III vehicles as cleaner fuel used by Bharat Stage IV vehicles will be …

Who can touch diesel?

India’s diesel vehicle industry is so powerful that even a Volkswagen-like exposé of the cover-up of diesel emissions is like water …

In Short

Olympics 2008, Beijing - raising the bar

Beijing is implementing strict measures to improve air quality, a commitment it took on as host of the 2008 Olympic Games. But a boom in …

This winter most polluted for Maharashtra, Gujarat in last 4 years: CSE report

This demands urgent and aggressive scaling up of the multi-sector action plan to control pollution

On the right track

Automotive manufacturers to put their heads together to survive EU recycling directive

Volkswagen to pay $14.7 billion to settle emissions-cheating cases

After violating environmental and consumer laws for years, Volkswagen makes the largest-ever automotive buyback offer in the US

Smog has to be cleared

Two technologies that shape our future

Battery and meters are two widely used technologies, yet no one stops to think how they work. They determine our future. They dictate how we …

Green bonds: Is it green finance or green-washing?

A foremost requirement to develop a robust green bond market is to harmonise international and domestic guidelines and standards for …

Union Budget 2019-20: Blue sky thinking hits grey sky limit

New budget gives miss to blue-sky mission. Offers only a few sectoral hooks in transport and energy to nudge clean air action

Are signs on the wall signalling the death of diesel cars?

Mayors of 20 European cities have signed a petition to the European Union denouncing a loophole in diesel cars’ pollution limits

Auto Expo review: diesel, electric cars dictated trends

Electric and electric hybrid cars still stuck in concept stage

BS-IV checkmate

The country has a massive problem of older and more polluting vehicles. But why should this be an argument for delaying transition?

Does Volkswagen fraud signal death of diesel?

Making diesel vehicles clean, powerful and fuel-efficient is no easy task, and the Volkswagen cheating case has exposed this. This should act as …

EU adopts safe hydrogen car proposal

GHGs: US states sue government

Carbon smart

Algae can help check rising carbon levels in the environment

Regulation faces a hurdle