Category Archives: Transport

INDIAN INNOVATION – GREEN : SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY : IIT Guwahati Develops Technology to Standardise Electric Vehicles in India

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati has developed a technology that rates the motors and batteries of electric vehicles and suggests the best drivetrain components for the Indian scenario to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs).

According to IIT Guwahati, this is a unique method of its kind which standardises the electronic vehicles based on Indian drive-cycles.

T. G. Sitharam, director, IIT Guwahati, said, “The development in the field of next-generation energy-efficient EV technology is one of the most important breakthroughs required for the sustainable development of the country and to reduce the carbon footprint. IIT Guwahati is earnestly working in this direction. This development will augment this process and maximize the outcomes.”

source/content: thetelegraph.com (edited)

INTERNATIONAL : AVIATION : HAL-Israel Aerospace Sign MoU for Conversion of Civil (Passenger) Aircraft into Multi-Mission Tanker Transport Aircraft (MMIT)

In a move aimed at bolstering the ‘Make in India’ campaign, HAL has entered into a MoU with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to convert Civil (Passenger) aircraft to Multi Mission Tanker Transport (MMTT) aircraft in India.

The move will provide India’s defence ecosystem with new capabilities and cost effective solutions in the market.

The MoU will facilitate HAL and IAI’s decades’ long expertise in developing, manufacturing and producing leading defence platforms.

The scope of MoU also covers “passenger to freighter aircraft” conversion along with MMTT conversions.

A formal Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed in Delhi by D Maiti, CEO (MiG Complex), HAL and Yaacov Berkovitz, Vice President and General Manager, Aviation Group, IAI in the presence of Chandraker Bharati, JS (Aero), Ministry of Defence, Goveernment of India.

source/content: daijiworld.com (edited)

RECORDS : SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY : India’s First Ever Long-Lasting ‘Steel Slag’ Road built in Gujarat

Highligts:

  • This steel slag road is built with 100 per cent processed steel slag
  • India’s first-ever ‘steel slag ’road, which has been built by ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India with CSIR India, CRRI and Niti Aayog

In the first use case of waste steel in India, a road has been constructed using waste steel in Surat at the Hazira industrial area.

It is India’s first-ever ‘steel slag road’, which has been built by ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India with CSIR India (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) and the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) and government think tank Niti Aayog.

Steel slag road is built with 100 per cent processed steel slag, which aggregates in all layers of bituminous roads at Hazira, Surat.

source/content: livemint.com (edited)

ECONOMY : EXPORTS : Nissan India Rolls out the 50,000 th Unit Milestone of the Magnite (SUV)

Nissan India on Tuesday said that it has rolled out 50,000th unit of its Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) Magnite from the Chennai plant of Renault Nissan Automotive India Pvt Ltd (RNAIPL) alliance.

Terming Magnite as a game changer, Rakesh Srivastava, MD, Nissan Motor India, said in a statement that the company had received over 100,000 customer bookings in domestic & export markets,

“We have been able to achieve the 50,000th Magnite milestone in less than 15 months despite head winds from Covid and the semi-conductor crisis. Our employees and supplier partners have contributed immensely with innovative strategies to overcome this crisis,” said Biju Balendran, MD & CEO, RNAIPL.

Magnite was the first global product to be launched under the Nissan NEXT transformation plan. Since its launch, 50,000 Magnites have been produced in Chennai, despite the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and ongoing semiconductor shortage.

source/content: thehindu.com (edited)

iNFRASTRUCTURE – AIRPORTS : RGIA declared Best Airport by Size and Region in Asia-Pacific

The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, (RGIA) Hyderabad, has been declared the best airport by size and region in the Asia-Pacific region for 2021.

This is in the category of 15 million to 25 million passengers per annum.

Luis Felipe de Oliveira, director general, ACI World, congratulated GMR Hyderabad International Airport and said that the award reflects their commitment to improving passenger experience.

source: thehindu.com

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY : Indigenously Developed ‘Automatic Train Collusion Prevention System ‘Kavach’ for Domestic Implementation and Future Exports.

‘Kavach’ a technological development of the Indian Railways. It is a phenomenal improvement in safety and a significant contributor to accident prevention.

A major milestone in the Indian Railways in the avoidance of the head-on collusion by ‘Kavach’ without any manual intervention.

The technology is scheduled to be implemented in the entire rail network in the country and will also be exported to the world in the future.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY : DRDO-developed Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits on board ISRO’s EOS04 Satellite

Monolithic microwave integrated circuits developed by the DRDO are on board the EOS04 satellite launched on February 14 by the Indian Space Research Organisation, the Defence Ministry.

The circuits have been used in radar imaging modules of the satellite, the ministry said in a statement..

source: newindianexpress.com

Tata Motors Launches its First CNG Passenger Car. October 2013 .

Tata Motors Limited launched its first factory fitted compressed natural gas (CNG) passenger car in Ahmedabad – the Nano ‘eMax’. Tuesday – October 08th, 2013.

The new bio-fuel product, can run on gasoline as well as CNG. It comes equipped with a 32-litre CNG tank and has a claim of 36km per Kg fuel efficiency.

This is the first of the 5 brands in the CNG eMax series to be rolled out by Tata Motors. Indigo and Indica are likely to be the subsequent ones in the plan.