Bhavya Dilipkumar for Moneycontrol reports industry body data shows that in the last year, the number of EV finance players have grown from four to 13, and overall disbursements have grown 50% to Rs 1,000 crore with investments of Rs 1,000-2,000 crore including debt and equity.
Read MoreAman Rawat reports that Investors remain buoyant on the growth potential of the Indian electric vehicle (EV) industry and add investments worth billions of dollars to tap this market….
Read MoreSohini Mitter reports: electric mobility startup BluSmart has completed 2 million trips and covered 75 million clean kilometers on the streets of Delhi-NCR. Now, in partnership with Tata Motors and Jio-bp, it plans to expand across the country.
Read MoreErin Wong reports every day, Abhishek Thadi rides his electric scooter to work at a tech park in Bengaluru, India — at times, joyriding aimlessly. Thanks to his charger at home, he said, his trips cost a mere 25 rupees (31 U.S. cents) per 75 kilometers of road. He can speed along the airport expressway at 80 kilometers per hour, or take a trip to Mysuru, a neighboring town, charging once along the way. “The future is here,” Thadi said to Rest of World. “I was expecting that this kind of performance would be way off by many years.”
Read MoreHenry Fountain writes: Failure to limit global warming to the targets set by international accords will most likely set off several climate “tipping points,” a team of scientists said on Thursday, with irreversible effects including the collapse of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, abrupt thawing of Arctic permafrost and the death of coral reefs.
Read MoreOutlook reports that despite political tensions and cultural rivalry, India and Pakistan have a history of lending a helping hand when calamity strikes the other. In the face of imminent climate calamity, need for regional cooperation in South East Asia is the need of the hour.
Read MoreMontek S. Ahluwalia and Utkarsh Patel advise that we could stake a claim to leadership by following up our commitments with a finely detailed action plan for the next 10 years.
Read MoreBBC News reports Australia's parliament has passed legislation that will reduce carbon emissions by 43% by 2030 and to net zero by 2050. The rush to become net zero is not a trend, but a global mission.
Read MoreA tax credit by way of the Inflation Reduction Act is set to revive the clean hydrogen industry, making clean hydrogen economically feasible for both existing hydrogen-using and new categories of companies.
Read MoreIncreasingly severe weather brought about by climate change has devastated global food systems, and will continue to do so left unanswered. Now is the time to address these critical, environmental problems.
Read MoreJeff Masters reports increased drought and extreme heat adversely affecting agriculture likely pose the highest threat to civilization over the next 40 years. The greatest danger: extreme droughts supercharged by climate change, affecting multiple grain-growing areas simultaneously, causing “food shock” events that could trigger food prices spikes leading to mass starvation, war, and a severe global economic recession.
Read MoreJeff Cox reports the Federal Reserve’s new banking regulator outlined a broad agenda in a speech Wednesday that pushed for action on stablecoins, climate change preparations and both the safety and fairness of the finance industry.
Read MoreMorgan Coates reports this summer has been dominated by extreme weather and natural disasters across the globe. There are wildfires in California and typhoons in the Pacific. Europeans baked in record-breaking temperatures. One-third of Pakistan was underwater due to flooding.
Read MoreBusiness Standard reports the two countries must commit to 'free trade, openness, integration' of economies, says Adani Group chairman in award acceptance speech.
Read MorePooja Malik for YourStory reports on pune-based agritech startup Nutrifresh — which sells hydroponically-grown fruits and vegetables and controls the entire production from seed to consumer.
Read MoreMid-Day reports: One of the leading EV start-ups, EMotorad was recognized as India’s Most Admirable Brand for manufacturing and promoting premium e-vehicles in India by the Brand Story.
Read MoreNews Bureau for Energitica India report a group of financiers that are actively financing electric vehicles have come together to launch an association, EMFAI. Sameer Aggarwal, the Founder and CEO of RevFin, will serve as the founding President.
Read MoreEurope is one of the largest and fastest-growing markets for electric vehicles with an affluent customer base, which will provide EMotorad with a huge opportunity to produce electric cycles for the mass market, it said. The company said it is eying to sell some 3,000 e-bikes in the first few quarters across these five countries.
Read MoreMirela Petkova reports Pakistan is experiencing a record monsoon season that has displaced at least 30 million people. More than four million Bangladeshis were displaced by what has been called the worst flooding the country has seen in a century.
Read MoreDigital First Magazine reports Nutrifresh’s commitment to changing the way food is grown in India is truly changing the future of food — improving the quality of food and empowering women farmers.
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