India’s largest automaker, Maruti Suzuki, now offers CNG option on 5 popular models

Filed under: Suzuki , Natural Gas , Green Daily , India Maruti Suzuki , India’s largest automaker, has unveiled a lineup of CNG-powered vehicles that run the gamut from entry-level compacts to sedans and right on up to MPVs. The company’s factory-fitted CNG engine technology, dubbed “intelligent-Gas Port Injection” (i-GPI), will be immediately available on five popular models, including the SX4 , Eeco, Wagon R , Estilo and Alto . According to Maruti Suzuki: [i-GPI] bi-fuel technology offers an intelligent ride

India goes on general strike to combat high fuel prices

Filed under: Green Culture , Legislation and Policy , India Governments the world over are doing their best to stave off budget shortfalls, and India has taken to upping the cost of fuel to cover its overhead. Turns out the common man isn’t much for those kinds of shenanigans. After fuel prices shot skyward, the opposition to the ruling party initiated a strike that stuttered normal life in the country for a few days.

Toyota Prius blows past sales expectations in India with 80 units in three months

Filed under: Hybrid , Toyota , India 2010 Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery How much is too much when it comes to selling the Toyota Prius ? In India, the Japanese automaker expected to sell just 12 of the world’s best-selling hybrids a month, but it has already received orders for 80 vehicles and has delivered 45 since March.

Report: India’s "King of the Road" being retired due to stricter emissions regulations

Filed under: Suzuki , Legislation and Policy , Green Daily , India The Ford Model T, Volkswagen Beetle and Fiat 500 are all fondly remembered by the populations of the countries that spawned them - the United States, Germany and Italy respectively - as the vehicles that finally made the masses mobile. You can add the Maruti Suzuki 800 that that list as well. The little hatchback from India was first introduced in 1983, and it quickly became known as the “King of the Indian Road.” To date, over 2.5 million Maruti 800s have been sold.

GM and DOE explore jatropha’s biodiesel future in India

Filed under: India , USA With an official decision on whether or not to re-up the $1 per gallon federal tax credit for biodiesel producers not expected until mid-April , continuing tariffs in the EU and an economy still floundering, it is most definitely safe to say the biodiesel industry has seen brighter days, at least here in the U.S. For the industry, it’s a good thing there’s India. General Motors is entering five-year partnership with the U.S.

Reva delaying production of NXR electric car?

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Manufacturing/Plants , India Reva NXR - Click above for high-res image gallery The NXR - Reva’s low-cost, 65 mile-per-hour electric car (9,995 euros for the lead acid version with leased batteries) - was supposed to be available soon.

Rendered Speculation: Hyundai’s Tata Nano competitor cometh

Filed under: MPG , Hyundai , Lightweight , India While the Tata Nano isn’t sold here in the U.S., the $2,500 uber-economy car has in many ways put parent company Tata Motors on the international map. The reason for the Nano’s celebrity has everything to do with its ridiculously cheap price tag, which gives many buyers in India a four-wheeled vehicle they can actually afford.

If you’ve ever wondered what a Tata Nano looks like in Gulf livery, well… wonder no more

Filed under: MPG , Tata The CarWale Endurance Run Tata Nano - Click above for image gallery The Indian car shopping site CarWale.com is driving a Tata Nano in a loop across the length and breadth of India to make a point about the car and the country.

Tata Motors moves into hydrogen fuel cells for light trucks, buses

Filed under: Hydrogen , Tata Tata Nano - Click above for high-res image gallery The Tata Nano might be famous for being the world’s cheapest car, we’re going to go out on a limb and say that, should Tata Motors bring the hydrogen fuel cell buses and light trucks they are apparently working on to market, they won’t get the same descriptor. Nonetheless, the Indian company is testing large fuel cell vehicles at its European Technical Centre and is “gain[ing] experience of how they actually work in operation,” John Richmond, group chief engineer of Tata Motors Europe, said, before the company makes a decision on production.

Daimler reaffirms commitment to jathropa biodiesel in India

Filed under: Biodiesel , India , Daimler Jathropa - Click above for high-res image gallery Even with all of the corporate focus on plug-in, hybrid and fuel cell vehicles (examples here , here and here ), Daimler is not forgetting about good old biofuels. In fact, the company is working with two German groups (the Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH and Bayer CropScience AG) to help farmers in India grow jathropa on previously unprofitable wasteland in order to make biodiesel

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