China’s pioneering electric vehicle company, BYD Co, is considering cutting as many as 7,000 jobs in its automobile unit to bring down costs, according to an unconfirmed media report on Saturday, the Global Times reported.
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs has said that both France and the Philippines are interested in the country's electric vehicles. La Poste, France's postal service operator, has ordered more than 10,000 EV motorcycles amounting to TWD 1 billion (USD33 million) in sales.
Transportation and energy ministers from 21 economies in the Asia-Pacific region have agreed to make their transportation systems cleaner and more energy-efficient for livable, low-carbon communities.
Nissan has been given the go-ahead to start selling it flagship all-electric Leaf car in China with reports indicating it will hit the market shortly after China's week-long 1 October holiday.
In the last three months Airport Authority Hong Kong (AAHK) has been consulting the public on its masterplan for the next 20 years. In essence this comes down to whether an additional runway should be added to airport or whether growth should be limited to the maximum capacity of the existing two runways.
Vietnam's government has set a time frame for the introduction of vehicle emissions rules based on EU standards. Only newly manufactured, assembled or imported motor vehicles will be required to comply with the tightened emission limits which will come into effect in 2017, reports Vietnam News Agency.
A variety of factors are thought to be behind Toyota's announcement that it will manufacture key components for its hybrid cars in China. Hiroyoshi Yoshiki, a senior Japan-based Toyota executive, said at an auto conference in Tianjin recently that the company is considering a move to shift to China production of some of the key components for hybrid and other heavily electrified cars.
In the absence of a good governance system China’s “Power the Nation” dream is pushing the country into rapid environmental deterioration. Throughout this year, the alarm bells have been ringing:
Mitsubishi is collaborating with Bangkok’s Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) to launch road tests of a new-generation electric vehicle (EV) known as the MiEV, according to the Bangkok Post.
While other large car companies have been announcing deals to develop new technologies, Mitsubishi New Zealand has signed up SolarCity to provide its new EV car customers with a rooftop solar system, which should pay for the car's use. Laudable as Mitsubishi's marketing strategy is, the scheme brings into sharp focus dark shadows around New Zealand's policy on solar energy.
While China's cabinet mulls over what it can do next to boost its flagging electric vehicle market, short of legislating that people buy them, another environmental green vehicle project is meeting with better success.According to official data, almost 25,000 ageing vehicles were scrapped or sold to buyers outside of Beijing by the end of August. It was an 86 percent increase on the average for the previous seven months according to the China Beijing Environment Exchange.
More than 200 clean tech public transport vehicles were put into service in Haikou, capital of south China's Hainan Province, at the weekend.The new energy vehicle fleet are composed of 30 electric buses, 170 hybrid buses and 27 electric taxis, according to Xhinua.
The past couple of weeks have seen a flurry of multinational deals in the hybrid and electric car market. Latest to the table is China's Geely-owned Volvo.
A team from Indonesia has demonstrated that you don't need an advanced auto manufacturing sector to get into the electric vehicle race by rolling out a hot open-wheel sports car called the SKEV-1 on Indonesian National Day earlier this month.
US car rental company Hertz Corp will provide electric vehicles as part of its rental business in China as part of its global roll-out of electric vehicles.
India looks set to benefit from up to 30 clean tech projects being supported by the European Business and Technology Centre (EBTC), an agency co-funded by the European Union (EU) for promoting clean technologies in India, although the timeframe remains vague.
A planned increase in the national R&D budget announced by Thailand’s government along with tax incentives will be the main drivers moving Thailand towards a green economy, says a government think-tank.
Major Chinese car manufacturer First Automobile Works (FAW) this week launched the first batch of its independently-developed electric vehicles (Evs), just at a time when a sharp fall in sales of conventional gasoline cars at China's EV darling BYD Co is threatening to undercut its ambitious expansion plans for electric cars
This report by the World Bank spells out what the world would be like if it warmed by 4 degrees Celsius, which is what scientists are nearly unanimously predicting by the end of the century, without serious policy changes.
Companies in Asia reveal expectations that regulations that could lead to rising costs for reporting and reducing GHG emissions will also be the main sources of climate-related business opportunities.
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