Hyundai Motor India Ltd which is India’s second major auto manufacturer on Wednesday declared the launching of the Accent 2011 version. The Accent 2011 version will be obtainable at a price of Rs 501,900 which is ex-showroom in New Delhi.
The outsides of the Accent acquires a new look with chrome finish face grillwork. The body painted waistline influencing now has chrome inserts. The car also has a chrome decorate over license plate.
Arvind Saxena who is Director, Marketing and Sales, HMIL said, “The Accent 2011 edition comes with elegant styling which makes it more sophisticated and desirable. It is our continuous effort to gauge changing customer preferences and keep introducing new features in our products. We are confident that with the new styling the Accent 2011 edition will become even more popular.”
The Accent set in motion in 1999 is also obtainable with substitute fuel choices such as CNG and LPG. The Korean car maker has traded over 3 lakh units in the foreign market.
At present, Hyundai Motor India sends abroad its cars to over 115 countries. At their Sriperumbudur service near Chennai, it constructs seven models — the Santro, i10 and i20, Accent, Verna Transform, Sonata Transform and the admired SUV Santa Fe.
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– July 5, 2011
Carelessness by officials led to severe sufferings to common man once again. Lakhs of Mumbaikars confronted a torturing time commuting on Tuesday as a burst in a natural gas feeder line interrupted supply to the city, pushing most auto rickshaws and taxis off roads.
Throughout Mumbai and in sections of Thane, Mira-Bhayander and Navi Mumbai, daily travellers found few auto drivers or cabbies prepared to ply. Drivers, who were ready for business, abused the circumstances with the aim of extracting enormous amounts from powerless citizens.
The trouble started late on Monday night as word disseminated of a slit in the major pipeline providing CNG to Mumbai region. The infringe had occurred earlier in the day when a piling machine being utilized by a civic contractor to cover a drain hit the GAIL pipeline close to the Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilisers (RCF) plant in Wadala.
Instantaneously after the catastrophe, GAIL and Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL) switched off the supply of CNG to the latter’s 148 filling stations and, consequently, to Lakhs of auto rickshaws, taxis and private cars. Functionaries assured supply would be annealed by Tuesday night.
The episode affected the normal game of passing the buck between government authorities.
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– July 4, 2011
The Sui Northern Gas Pipelines has suspended its supply to industry and CNG stations in Punjab ‘indefinitely.’ This extreme step was taken on Saturday to calm domestic users who took to the streets in quite a few cities of the state after having gone without gas for several days.
The industry and owners of CNG stations refused to obey the orders stated that this move has actually ‘snatched their livelihood’.
K.W. Shariq of the gas company stated thus “The entire distribution system is getting emptied because of exceptionally prolonged cold weather. If the pipes got empty, as they are, compression (gas travel) in the pipelines would become impossible and the entire system would collapse,” he added.
Malik Aftab of Lahore while refusing to accept the decision said “What option we have got; shut the units down, throw the labour out and go on permanent fast,” says, who runs a small unit on the city suburbs. The move will only create social and political unrest. It is also bad for the federation as only Punjab is suffering while all other federating units are getting normal supplies. If domestic consumers can scare the company by taking to the street, the industrial workers will do the same on Sunday.”
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– July 3, 2011
A new University from British Columbia entered into a pioneering program to study and find out the impact of vehicles switching over to CNG. The study revealed that this fuel has not considerably enhanced injurious vehicle emissions in more than 5,000 vehicles; not only this the effect on some vehicles’ had worsened.
This study explored the impacts of New Delhi, India’s 2003 conversion of 90,000 buses, taxis and auto-rickshaws to compressed natural gas (CNG), which is supposed to be a famous ‘clean’ fuel and furnished important information for other cities looking at similar projects.
Lead author and UBC post-doctoral fellow Conor Reynolds said “Our study demonstrates the importance of engine type when adopting clean fuels. Despite switching to CNG, two-stroke engine auto-rickshaws in Delhi still produce similar levels of particulate matter per kilogram of fuel to a diesel bus – and their climate impacts are worse than before.”
He further said that “If policymakers have information about emissions and their potential impacts, they can make better decisions to serve both the public and the environment.”
Prof. Milind Kandlikar a co-author of the study said “Clean fuels are being used in Indian cities for transportation when they could save many more lives if used for cooking. The interests of the rural poor, particularly women and children, are being put below those of the urban consumer.”
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– July 2, 2011
After a news conference in which the offering was announced, a company representative alleged the single-source LPG system is assembled to GM engineering measures and would be straight away obtainable just on the Express and Savana 4500 series chassis with 49-gallon fuel power while the company looked into how the engineering would work with the 3500 series.
Knapheide Manufacturing Company will set up the fuel storage and delivery arrangement near after the 4500 series cutaway vans leave GM’s Wentzville, Mo., plant. Clean Fuel USA proceeds to be a tier-two dealer for GM’s 49- and 75-gallon LPG fuel systems along with Bi-Phase Technologies. The cutaway vans will be enclosed by GM’s three-year, 36,000-mile new vehicle restricted guarantee and five-year, 100,000-mile restricted power-train guarantee and vehicle discharges warranty. The LPG system meets all EPA and California Air Resources Board (CARB) emission certification necessities.
GM is the first marketable fleet producer to render a single-source LPG van alternative and the only OEM to extend four alternative fuel alternatives, the other three being CNG, ethanol and biodiesel.
Brian Small, general manager of GM Fleet and Commercial Operations, said “LPG infrastructure has progressed rapidly, so it’s easier for our customers to refuel in convenient locations across the country. When our customers order the LPG option, they’re getting a sensible fuel alternative, with the convenience of a one-stop ordering process.”
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– July 1, 2011
The Public transport system in Dubai will soon run on CNG, which will reduce carbon discharges by 70% per fomite.
“All the authority vehicles, all the buses, all the taxis will be on gas; on a dual system,” Hesham Ali Mustafa who is the General Manager of Emirates Gas, told Gulf News on Tuesday. He further added that “So the vehicle has the computer built in to choose what is most economical… this is what you’re going to see in Dubai very soon.”
The consequences of an earlier trial of utilizing hybrid fomites as taxis will also be examined soon. Mustafa said CNG points will be brought in at all fuel stations. Explaining this he said that “We have a very robust plan in how we’re going to introduce the CNG infrastructure in Dubai.”
According to Mustafa, fomites which have a dual system that is CNG and petrol/diesel, as well as a battery, will make it the most efficient system. A switch within will help in converting cars and allow drivers to toggle from gas to petrol and vice-versa.
An official at RTA said “Emirates Gas is currently in discussions with the government over when the specific phases will be rolled out, but added that an announcement was likely to be made in forthcoming months.”
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– June 30, 2011
Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) use in Iran has changed by 1 Mcm on average, achieving 14 Mcm/d, declared Managing Director of the National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company (NIOPDC) Farid Ameri. He further added that “The increase comes despite the fact that consumption had fallen by 2 Mcm/d over the first seven days after implementation of Subsidies Reform Law.”
Ameri further noted that “in comparison to 40-cent/l subsidized and 70-cent/l non-subsidized gasoline, CNG consumption, which costs 30 cents per cubic meter, is yet more economical. CNG is not included in the rationing plan yet and there is no limitation in product supply.”
1,550 CNG stations are at present operating throughout the country, which are designed to step-up to 1,600 stations on the function of 32nd Anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution which occurs from 1-11 in the month of February.
Throughout the preceding five years, CNG contribution in the country’s energy basket has altered considerably from 0.05% to 7%. While the every day CNG use in 2005 stood at 800,000 cubic meter, the figure altered to 9.3 Mcm/d over 2010, and presently is at 14 Mcm/d.
Iran’s government has of late recommended Ministries of Petroleum, Energy (Water and Electricity), the Interior, Commerce, Industries and Mines, and Road and Transportation to lend a hand to enlarge CNG stations throughout the country
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– June 29, 2011
Hyundai Motor Company, South Korea’s biggest auto manufacturer, revealed the nation’s first CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) hybrid bus, ‘Blue-City,’ establishing its technical leadership in the area of eco-friendly fomites. This is the first time a chief car manufacturer severally formulated both the system and body for such a vehicle.
This vehicle delivers both better fuel efficiency and lower emissions by utilizing a CNG engine and an electric motor. The hybrid bus is fitted out with a G-CNG Engine that extends 177kW which is 240ps and a 6-speed machine-driven manual transmission, while its 60kW which is 82ps extremely-competent electric motor and 3.8kWh lithium-polymer battery allow protected driving and competent charging.
With regards to CO2 emanations, the CNG hybrid bus gives off more than 24% less CO2 which is equivalent to approximately 33 tons per year/vehicle than a conservative CNG bus and 35% less than a diesel bus.
Hyundai will activate 30 test units of `Blue-City’ in chosen metropolitan regions from July, with programs to mass develop the fomites in 2012. Hyundai will go on to elaborate its Blue Drive plan and products to ensure its spot as a most important eco-friendly auto manufacturer.
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– June 28, 2011
CNG (compressed natural gas) car prototypes are not an option of many, in spite of petrol prices increasing every two weeks and Government’s uninterrupted effort to encourage the CNG run versions as eco friendly cars.
Of late it has been reviewed that CNG is only favored by 25 % of the purchasers. As per the study, the purchasers have affirmed environment friendly cars over price efficient cars, the cause for procuring but the obstructions are the deficiency of substructure and several safety consequences.
The study proposes that approximately 62% of the appraised people said that want of refueling stations is a huge cause for its less reputation. On the other hand, two out of five people affirmed that the CNG safety mechanisms are not dependable.
The research also demonstrates dissimilar opinions. 78% of the subjects consider that Indian government must impose rigid safety principles for the usage of CNG car prototypes. Nevertheless above 3/5 suppose that the CNG is the succeeding fuel of the cars versus the petrol/ diesel variants. And 87% senses that CNG version should be obtainable in larger cars which will aid in making it accepted.
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– June 27, 2011
The CNG pipe that had seeped out and ensued in a Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) bus being emptied on S V Road in Andheri last Thursday had been substituted by an expert at the Oshiwara depot a day before.
A BEST survey account, listed on Tuesday, held the expert prima facie shamed, and said that he detected error with the gas pipe and substituted it on January 12 evening.
The report said “He overlooked the fact that the bus was procured from Ashok Leyland six months ago and was under warranty. The bus should have been sent back to the manufacturer for any defect.
However, the technician took a call and replaced the faulty pipe. But the second pipe was not properly fitted to the valve, resulting in the leakage and fire.”
The 18 riders on board had a phenomenal getaway as the bus driver emptied them on time. The BEST contrives to debar the technician and honor the driver for his presence of mind.
BEST committee member Ravi Raja alleged, “Why was no action taken against Ashok Leyland? It should be penalized for delays in deliveries and for buses developing snags within the warranty period.”
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– June 26, 2011
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