Air pollution is more dangerous to the health of the average person on planet Earth than smoking or alcohol, with the threat worsening in its global epicenter South Asia even as China quickly improves, a benchmark study showed Tuesday. Yet the level of funding set aside to confront the challenge is a fraction of the amount…
The e-Alfa Super is designed to cater to driver partners seeking self-employment, featuring an extended single-charge range exceeding 95 km. New Delhi: Mahindra Last Mile Mobility (LMM), a prominent player in India’s electric 3-wheeler sector, launched the new Mahindra e-Alfa Super on Wednesday, expanding its existing electric 3-wheeler offerings. Priced at INR 1.61 lakh (ex-showroom),…
Lotus will take on the Porsche Taycan, Tesla Model S Plaid, and Lucid Air Sapphire with its own high-performance electric sedan. Due sometime next year as a 2025 model, the Lotus Emeya is the automaker’s second EV, following the Eletre SUV. It’s also latest in a set of premium, flagship sedans or fastbacks that emphasize performance,…
A Russian robotic spacecraft that was headed to the lunar surface has crashed into the moon, Russia’s space agency said on Sunday, citing the results of a preliminary investigation a day after it lost contact with the vehicle. It is the latest setback in spaceflight for a country that during the Cold War became the…
The deplorable condition of buses has forced the passengers to lodge their complaints with NMMC commissioner and NMMT high ups, but in vain. Commuters travelling on Navi Mumbai Municipal Transport (NMMT) buses across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) have expressed anguish over the poor maintenance of the vehicles. NMMT buses ferry at least 2.5 lakh…
UK-based Charge Cars has been working on its reengineered fully-electric classic Ford Mustang for a few years and it has been shown at several motoring venues in the UK, but now the company will be bringing it to the United States for the first time. It will be shown at the the Petersen Automotive Museum,…
Over the Labor Day weekend, social media feeds flooded with stark warnings about a major storm slamming the East Coast of the United States next week. That hypothetical storm became Hurricane Lee on Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center said. But as of Wednesday night, it was too early to say whether a major hurricane would…
Secretary, Housing and Urban Affairs, Manoj Joshi said the scheme will be rolled out in 169 cities and states are required to submit their proposals by September 30. New Delhi: The ‘PM-eBus Sewa’ scheme, under which 10,000 electric buses will be provided to 169 cities under a public-private partnership (PPP) model, will be rolled out…
Michigan-based energy storage technology startup Our Next Energy (ONE) has announced range and mass breakthroughs with its Aries II lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery pack. The company claims that its battery has closed the gap in range and mass to within six percent of the leading benchmark nickel cobalt manganese (NCM) pack typically used in…
A riddle haunts the Titan disaster. It’s the presence on the doomed craft of Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77. The Frenchman was one of the world’s great submariners. So why was he, of all people, diving repeatedly to the Titanic on a submersible that many experts saw as a catastrophe waiting to happen? “It’s a source of…
