The Cambridge Design Partnership in the UK has unveiled a hypermiling concept car that can travel an astonishing 1,325 miles on a single gallon of diesel. While most green vehicles are tested through a series of intense trials, this concept car was piloted by an 11 year old Cambridgeshire girl at the annual Mileage Marathon Challenge at Mallory Park. The ...

Simple road safety measures put in place on just 15 roads in the UK have helped save more than 300 lives, according to a survey conducted by the Road Safety Foundation. The measures have reduced serious road crashes on the 15 roads alone from 494 to 190, while emergency services, the NHS, local authority care, businesses and families have been ...

Kolkata Metro is set for a massive expansion of its coverage area, with plans to expand its total length from the present 25km to 110km. The new plans include provisions for both – construction of new lines as well as extending the present ones. The extension projects will cost र11,000 crore. New interchanging facilities in the offing will enable commuters ...

The Railways has decided to modernise the retiring rooms at the Delhi railway stations to improve facilities. The maintenance of retiring rooms at both New Delhi and Old Delhi stations will be outsourced to private contractors. The New Delhi station retiring room has 22 rooms while the Old Delhi station has 11. The contractors will provide housekeeping facilities in addition ...

India’s longest tunnel, the under construction 11km long tunnel linking Qazigund and Banihal in the state of Kashmir, is expected to be ready in a year’s time. The tunnel passes through the Pir Panjal range of mountains, and when completed, will connect Kashmir Valley with Jammu. Named T8,0 the tunnel will considerably improve connectivity between the two parts of the ...

The Bangalore Metro project is using slurry tunnel boring machines from Hitachi to speed up the work of creating tunnels for the Metro. This is the first time such a machine is being used in India. The 330 tonne machines need 3,000KW of power which is supplied by a diesel generator located at KSRTC’s Kempe Gowda Bus Station. They bore ...

Tata Motors has got an order to supply 1,111 medium and heavy commercial trucks (M&HCV) from the Surat based Siddhivinayak Logistics Ltd (SVLL), its largest order ever. SVLL is one of the biggest trucking companies in India, with operations covering a range of diverse sectors such as steel, machinery, tractors, cement and commercial vehicle chassis transport. SVLL will use the ...

The construction of the twin tunnels extending from the mountains near BARC (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre) to Gautam Nagar near Panjarpole, is expected to be completed by the end of the year by the MMRDA. The 500km long tunnels are the first ones in India to be built in a city for urban transport purposes. They are a part of ...

In a measure that will save 5,71,261 units of electricity every year, the Chennai Municipal Corporation will replace 2,796 street lights with solar powered LED lamps in the slum areas of nine of its zones. Estimated to cost र6.63 crore, the new 70-watt sodium vapour lamps will cut down the corporation’s annual energy bill by र30 lakh. The project is ...

US based Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) recently awarded its highest safety award – Top Safety Pick to the new Lexus 2011 hybrid CT 200h. IIHS, an independent not-for-profit research and communication body, awards the Top Pick award to vehicles that are fitted with electronic stability control and achieve a rating of ‘good’ in their tests for front, side, ...