Renault-Nissan has announced a joint venture with Indian firm Bajaj to produce a $2,500 (£1,276) car.Does the world's poor really need cheap personal automobiles? Nevermind the environmental cost,...
Apple's popular iPod nano media player is at the centre of a safety scare after it gave off sparks while being recharged in Japan. Although no one was injured, the incident which happened in January prompted a safety investigation, according to Japan's trade ministry.
India's Tata Motors Ltd unveiled the world's cheapest new car on Thursday, bringing car ownership closer for millions of poorer consumers in emerging markets but raising enviromental concerns.The compact but curvy Nano stands in sharp contrast to the luxury Jaguar and Land...
India's Tata Motors Ltd unveiled the world's cheapest new car on Thursday, bringing car ownership closer for millions of poorer consumers in emerging markets but raising enviromental concerns.The compact but curvy Nano stands in sharp contrast to the luxury Jaguar and Land...
India's Tata Motors Ltd unveiled the world's cheapest new car on Thursday, bringing car ownership closer for millions of poorer consumers in emerging markets but raising enviromental concerns.The compact but curvy Nano stands in sharp contrast to the luxury Jaguar and Land...
India's Tata Motors Ltd unveiled the world's cheapest new car on Thursday, bringing car ownership closer for millions of poorer consumers in emerging markets but raising enviromental concerns.The 4-seater Nano, with an engine around 625cc, will have a dealer price of 100,000...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Tata Motors Ltd
unveiled the world's cheapest new car on Thursday, bringing car ownership
closer for millions of poorer consumers in emerging markets but raising
environmental...
"New Delhi: The launch of the Rs1-lakh car was received with scepticism by Dr RK Pachauri, head of the UN body on climate change, which this year shared the Nobel Peace Prize with former US vice-president Al Gore. “This is not the transport option for the country of a...
Carbon nanotubes have a sound future in the electronics industry, say researchers who built the world's first all-nanotube transistor radios to prove it.
The nanotube radios, in which nanotube devices provide all...
"Thursday, January 17, 2008
Unsafe at any price: World's Cheapest Car Environmentally Costly
By Praful Bidwai
NEW DELHI, Jan 16 (IPS) - Nothing has generated as much hyperbole in the global automobile industry in recent years as the unveiling, last week, of an ultra-cheap...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorI want to know which Scientists come up with these Bizzaro ideas? Is there anything under those labcoats? Cause there certainly doesn't seem to be anything upstairs....
Nanotechnology is going to revolutionize many facets of our lives, so I am going to bring you nanotech news that you may not have heard. Here's the first in my nano series:"Nanotechnology experts have found a way to harness the elasticity of carbon nanotubes to create a...
"One day, I'd like to write a
novel."
How many times have people said this to
themselves, only for them to lay aside their plans, and forget about them?
There is a growing number of students at SFU Surrey who are...
"Only three months after the first public presentation by Dr. Bernhard Wessling, the inventor and Ormecon CEO in July 2007, a first industrial line for the deposition of the new nanofinish will be installed in Korea at Ormecon's customer YooJin.
The line will go into...