Urban Mobility
Electric Vehicles were introduced in Kathmandu, Nepal in 1975 when the Chinese Government set up the trolley bus system along the 13-km route between Tripureswor and Surya-Binayak. After that, the Electric Vehicles movement took off in 1989, when a fuel crisis resulting from the India imposed trade embargo prompted a group of engineers to find an alternative arrangement for transportation.
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Mahindra & Mahindra, with its all-electric sub-brand Reva, is the sole homegrown automaker in the Indian market which is focusing on zero emission vehicles. After it introduced Reva, the company introduced the second generation of the Reva-i which is now christened as the e2o. Last month, Mahindra also added the e-Verito in its zero-emission lineup. Now, a senior executive from
Read morePorsche, the No. 2 contributor to VW group profit, plans to create at least 1,400 jobs to develop, build and sell the battery-powered Mission E, a rival to Tesla’s Model S, that is due to roll off the assembly line at its Zuffenhausen base in 2019, it said on Tuesday. Another 350 digital experts are to be hired at a
Read moreCalifornia emission rules require high-volume automakers to sell either battery-electric or hydrogen fuel-cell cars in proportion to their overall sales. Some manufacturers build “compliance cars” purely to satisfy this mandate, while others buy credits from automakers that sell more zero-emission vehicles than required by the rules. Since Tesla builds only electric cars, it has a large surplus of credits to
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