The PIL filed by Manish Parashar, who lost his 8-year-old daughter in an accident last year while she was going to her school on an e-rickshaw.
Karnataka Clean Mobility Policy will be unveiled during the Invest Karnataka meet
Battery operated rickshaws will be used for sightseeing inside the park replacing the existing cycle rickshaws at Keoladeo National Park in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur district, officials said, adding that the move will reduce the time taken for a tour of the park.
To achieve the e-mobility goal, India should target installing five million fast chargers and encourage battery swapping and the government should come up with production-linked incentive schemes for localised manufacturing too, the G20 Sherpa of India said.
The company, which is the e-mobility arm of Greaves Cotton Ltd, has acquired 100 per cent stake in BAPL.
Transportation app Ola today launched e-rickshaw category on its platform that will enable the users to book rides on the electric vehicle in Delhi-NCR region.
The ICAT-approved E-Raaja is indigenously designed and developed, and an outcome of more than two years of in-house R&D by a dedicated research and design team
The e-rickshaw, which has been certified by Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI), comes with 1,000 W motor and can cover a distance of 90 kms on a single charge, he added.
The government in October had notified the rules for plying of e-rickshaws making driver's licence mandatory for operating them and limiting the maximum speed to 25 km per hour.
Nitin Gadkari hopes to get Cabinet nod for changes to the Motor Vehicle Act soon, which he adds would be based on the US and UK norms. He hopes to move amendments to the Act in this session.