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Rev your car (and charge it, too)

Hybrids re-emerge as the ideal compromise between EV and petrol

Vishad Raj Onta

Nepal turns on the electric switch

The country is very close to generating enough electricity to replace petroleum imports

Bikash Pandey

Ukraine crisis hits Nepal economy hard

On 8 March, international crude oil prices hit a record $139 per barrel due to the Ukraine crisis — nearly double the...

Happy New Air

On Thursday morning, Nepali Times photographer Amit Machamasi was greeted with a shocking sight when he drove up to Nagarkot to take...

Sonia Awale

Blood, sweat, tears

Nepal’s economy has hit the iceberg, but you wouldn’t know it from the politicians fighting it out on the deck. A serial prime...

The road to electric transportation in Nepal

In 1911, Nepal became the second country in Asia to install a hydroelectric plant, and was a pioneer in  electric transportation with the opening...

Some silver linings

It has become a cliché to say that every crisis comes with opportunities. But that does not mean it is not true. It is...

More than half of Nepal’s electricity imported from India

Naya Patrika, 14 JanuaryNepal imported 653MW electricity from India on Friday, the biggest amount so far since the country ended powercuts three...

From a fossil past to an electric future

President Bidya Devi Bhandari will be leading the Nepali delegation at the Climate Summit (CoP24) in Poland next month, and environmental activists...

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