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Car modifications in India: What is legal and what’s not

Baua Electric

In fact, performing some weird modifications to your car may lead you to legal trouble. If you are planning to modify your car, here is a comprehensive guide with a list of legal and illegal modifications in India. Colour change: Changing a car’s colour is completely legal in India, but is subject to RTO’s approval.

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Bidirectional Charging Management (BCM) research project gets green light; tying in renewables

Green Car Congress

Integrating as many electric vehicles as possible into the power grid in this way calls for innovations in terms of vehicle technology, charging hardware, charging management, communication interfaces with energy sector stakeholders and legal parameters. The legal and regulatory parameters are being evaluated, too.

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DeMoBat project developing robot-assisted dismantling for EV batteries and motors

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photo: Irina Westermann, KIT). The funding is spread over four years and is made available as part of the Baden-Württemberg Automotive Industry Strategy Dialogue (SDA). Disassembling and reusing battery systems can help improve the environmental balance of electric cars. The dismantling factory is to be built close to the industry.

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Researchers propose using AC and ventilation systems for decentralized production of carbon-neutral synthetic fuels

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Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Toronto have proposed a method enabling air conditioning and ventilation systems to produce synthetic fuels from CO 2 and water from the ambient air. When stored without further utilization even negative emissions can be realized. Dittmeyer et al.

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EV conversion business profile: British Off Road, QLD

EV Central

Like the first series Mazda MX-5 (NA), with two overweight people on board that puts that car overweight – it’s only something like 220kg so it’s difficult to do legally in Australia. That’s the green side. They’re super reliable, quite reasonably priced and the availability is relatively good. You don’t keep using fuel.

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Ford announces Smart Mobility plan; 25 initial projects

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Engineers are working to develop sensor kits based on Ford OpenXC that gather information from bicycles and other common forms of transportation in urban areas. The City Dash app tells users whether they are legally parked. The system makes it easier for a driver to locate an open spot, reserve it and navigate to the space.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

As for warranties , there is legal precedent that original auto warranties cannot be voided completely by modifications — only the part(s) affected by retrofit will have their warranties affected. We will have similar solutions available for better (but more expensive) nickel-metal hydride or lithium-ion batteries.)

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