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Last Updated: March 04, 2024, 17:11 ISTTata Motors Rolls Out Next-Gen Green Fleet for Tata Steel. (Photo: Tata Motors)Tata Motors has supplied over 2,000 electric buses across various Indian cities, covering more than 12 crore kilometers with an impressive uptime of over 95%Tata Motors, the largest maker of commercial vehicles in India, launched its latest environmentally friendly fleet for Tata Steel.The new vehicles, including Prima tractors, tippers, and the Ultra EV bus, run on clean fuels like Liquefied Natural Gas…

Canada's forestry sector is responsible for far more greenhouse gas emissions than show up in official tallies, potentially leading to policies that aren't in line with the country's climate goals, a new study suggests.The peer-reviewed study, published in the academic journal Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, found that annual greenhouse gas emissions attributable to forestry between 2005 and 2021 were, on average, nearly 91 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent — which would put the sector on par with…

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Apple Inc said on Thursday it would use only recycled cobalt in batteries by 2025 as a part of its efforts to make all its products carbon neutral by the end of the decade. Magnets in Apple devices will use recycled rare earth elements, and in-house designed printed circuit boards will use recycled tin soldering and gold plating, the company said. Apple is pushing to become carbon neutral through its entire supply chain and the life cycle of every product by 2030. On Tuesday, it also doubled its financial commitment to a…

Toshiba India signed a deal with Indian EV startup EVage to supply its SCiB rechargeable lithium-ion cells to power the next 10,000 EVage electric commercial vehicles.With this agreement, EVage has become the first company in the world to use Toshiba's SCiB technology for delivery vans. Read AlsoEVage is a key supplier of electric vans to global companies like Amazon and India's largest logistics company, Delhivery, among others."We would like to contribute to realise Carbon Neutral society in India and highly appreciate…

Over 90 airports in the country will be carbon-neutral by 2024, while the number of airports will rise to 220 in the next five years, Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Tuesday. Currently, the country has 141 airports, of which Kochi and Delhi airports are carbon-neutral, the minister said. “One of the first things that I did when I took over as the aviation minister was to put a carbon mapping profile of our airports. Two of our airports, Delhi and Kochi, are already carbon-neutral and India will have 92-93…

Taking carbon dioxide, water and sunlight as only inputs, researchers in Switzerland have developed carbon-neutral, sustainable versions of diesel and aviation fuel. This is the first time that fuel has been produced in a power generator rather than a lab. The team started scaling up their design in 2017 and built a solar fuel-production plant at IMDEA Energy Institute in Spain. As per Newsweek, researchers informed that solar-made kerosene, or jet fuel, is fully compatible with the existing way fuel is stored,…