Hyundai India is likely to start manufacturing electric vehicles in the country both for the domestic as well as other markets in South Asia. The revelation comes from Hyundai Motor Company’s vice chairman, Euisun Chung. He has reportedly said, “This (India) is really an important market for an ... Read more

The Gujarat government is planning to start projects to store solar energy produced during the day and use it at night time, Energy Minister Saurabh Patel said Tuesday. He told this to a delegation from Colorado, a western US state, which is visiting Gujarat. Patel said the state is planning to ha... Read more

The prime minister’s office (PMO) has sought reworking of a proposal to offer incentives of as much as ₹ 5,500 crore ($759 million) for electric cars as it wants to use most of the funds to encourage local manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries, which form the core of such vehicles. The PMO las... Read more

The hybridization of the wind and solar assets is likely to lower the capital cost by 5-7 percent compared to the cost of standalone wind and solar assets, thus improving the returns for the developers, said a report. The ministry of new and renewable energy approved the National Wind-Solar Hybrid ... Read more

Sharath Devineni, a young engineer from Bangalore, decided to risk it all a couple of years ago and set up a company to help households and small businesses switch to solar power for their energy needs. With a rapidly growing appetite for energy in India, coupled with the expense of oil and coal im... Read more

Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar Saturday urged the automobile sector to confine to a timeline for achieving 100 per cent fully electric mobility solutions, powered by renewables. Kumar in his address at the Global Mobility Summit said transformation in the mobility sector requires a collaborat... Read more

Soon, on the lines of London, Singapore and many other international metropolises, India would have a single card for multiple modes of transport, said Amitabh Kant, CEO Niti Aayog. India will shortly unveil a ‘One Nation-One Card Policy’ for public transport that will entail connectivity betwe... Read more

Uncertainties over safeguard duty on Chinese and Malaysian solar panels and modules and other issues, in general, have led to a drop in import orders and installations even as the average selling price (ASP) of modules softened in the last quarter. Gaurav Mathur, CEO of Trina Solar India, a subsidi... Read more

China's electric vehicle market has seen great growth in a short period of time and will continue to grow rapidly despite Beijing's shifting subsidies, according to one expert. In 2014 there were only 50,000 electric vehicles sold, but in 2018 that number has increased 10 times. Each of the next fe... Read more

An exemption on road tax of up to 100 per cent, incentives to replace your old vehicle and charging stations across the city — the Delhi government is planning a host of measures to make electric vehicles popular in the capital. The government’s comprehensive electric vehicle policy is now read... Read more

Early this year in February when Nitin Gadkari, the road, transport and highways minister, inaugurated Electric Vehicle (EV) charging station at Niti Aayog building in the capital, he emphasized on the burden of crude oil bill on India's exchequer. "We spend seven lakh crore rupees on importing cru... Read more

China is looking to boost its energy storage market and projects as it adds growing renewable power capacities. At the end of last year, the Chinese authorities issued a unified nationwide policy to boost the energy storage industry that has been lagging behind other countries despite the fact that ... Read more