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Honda aiming to sell 3.5M electric motorcycles per year by 2030

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Honda will introduce more than 10 new electric motorcycle models by 2025, with an aim to reach annual electric motorcycle sales of 1 million units within the next five years, and 3.5 Honda has been offering the Honda e: Business Bike series models and accelerating the global launch of business-use electric motorcycles.

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Rapido revival in sight: Central guidelines set to reignite bike taxi services in Delhi and Maharashtra – ET Auto

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The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways ( MoRTH ) has issued guidelines clarifying the legality of bike taxis in India, potentially paving way for their return in key markets like Delhi and Maharashtra. The latest advisory aims to standardize regulations and protect bike taxi riders from legal complications.

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Honda to begin reuse of rare earth metals extracted from used NiMH batteries before year end; targeting extraction from motors and Li-ion batteries as well

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Separately, Honda said that it is the first—based on its internal research—global mobility company to disclose estimated global CO 2 emissions during customer use of its motorcycles, automobiles and power products. Motorcycles. Global average of the amount of CO 2 emitted by Honda products. 2020 Targets (vs. 31 Mar 2001).

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London’s £10 daily “T-charge” for most polluting vehicles now in effect; partnership with Turing Institute

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The minimum emissions standards for avoiding the T-Charge are Euro 4/IV for both gasoline and diesel vehicles and Euro 3 for motorized tricycles and quadricycles. A small number of vehicles manufactured before the Euro 4/Euro IV standard became mandatory will have NO x and PM emissions that meet Euro 4/Euro IV or better.

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Japan Automakers Support B5, E10 as Baseline Biofuel Blends, Recommend Specifications to ASEAN Countries

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The Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, Inc (JAMA), a nonprofit industry association comprising fourteen manufacturers of passenger cars, trucks, buses and motorcycles in Japan, recently issued position statements on and recommended specifications for bioethanol and biodiesel (fatty acid methyl ester, FAME).

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EC rolls out CARS 2020 action plan for European auto industry

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activities closer to the market such as public procurement, standardization and demonstration activities. Priorities will include motorcycles, safety of new vehicle technologies (EVs) and technologies supporting driver behavior and enforcement of road rules (intelligent speed management devices, seat belt reminders, ITS, ecodriving).

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Rajiv Bajaj's Chetak has a New Factory & Sad State of Auto Media

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Essentially Bajaj are artificially keeping Chetak production numbers low thus raising less awareness of EV’s so that he can delay the EV movement, which in turn ensures his ICE motorcycle business is not affected. Also there are talks to create more stringent guidelines with cells, BMS in the coming future.

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