Thinking global, living local

E20 Doesn't Cut Tailpipe CO2 by 30%. Run the Chemistry and the Real Number Is Close to Zero — Unless Your Engine Is Built for It.

September 18, 2026

India's own vehicle-testing data only measures ethanol's mileage penalty at two blend levels, E10 and E20. Run the actual combus...

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India's EV Localisation Deadline Just Split in Two, Because of the One Part China Still Controls

September 15, 2026

Three postponements into India's push to force domestic manufacturing of e-bus and e-truck traction motors, the government's 3 S...

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India Is Piping Jet Fuel to Five New Airports at Once. Only Six Had It Before

September 08, 2026

India has had a dedicated jet-fuel pipeline into an airport since 2008, at Bengaluru — and by this piece's count, at most six other...

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Brazil Pumps E30 at Every Station. The Equipment Behind It Is the Part Indias E20 Story Skips

September 01, 2026

Brazil has sold ethanol-blended petrol at every pump in the country, without exception, since 1938. Today that blend is 30%, the highes...

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Data-led analysis of India's trade, currency and industrial policy. Every article is built from primary official sources, and every figure links back to the release, table or filing it came from.

Sources. DGCI&S TradeStat (imports/exports, HSN-wise) · PIB (government press releases, January 2017 to today, refreshed daily) · RBI (circulars, balance of payments) · MoSPI (CPI/WPI, IIP) · PARIVESH (environmental clearances) · CCIL (bond yields) · BIS (policy rates) · SEBI, NSE/BSE and SEC filings for company data.

Interpretation. Figures carry their vintage and retrieval date; estimates and press-reported numbers are labelled as such; where sources disagree, both are shown. Corrections are made visibly, never silently. Articles are written with AI assistance from the cited sources — AI-generated text can misstate figures even when working from real material, so verify any number that matters to a decision against the linked primary source.

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