Miscellaneous

Iranian regulators recently authorized a 41% hike in prices for gasoline and diesel automotive engine oils. The country’s Consumer and Producer Prot ...

India implemented a temporary cut in the duty charged on palm oil imports, part of an effort to offset a sharp run-up in prices over the past year. An ...

Japanese specialty lubricant manufacturer Moresco Corp. reported higher sales of specialty lubricants and lower sales of synthetics oils for its first ...

Battery-powered cars are now synonymous in the public consciousness with zero-emissions transport. There is another way of powering a car without wait ...

Alexandra Przyborowski and Raj Shah outline some of the challenges faced by developers of lubrication products that are optimized for electric vehicle ...

Ampol said this week that it had formally commenced production and supply of Mobil lubricants at its lubricant manufacturing facility in Queensland, i ...

Despite the rapid growth of electric vehicles in China, new opportunities are available for lube suppliers, speakers said at the 2021 China Inter Lubr ...

While they don’t emit carbon like gas-powered cars, EVs have their own set of issues that are likely to affect other road users and the environment.

Lubricant blenders, automakers and mining companies are increasingly outsourcing their supply chain management needs to third parties. One such firm t ...

Lubes'n'Greases talked to Mark Miller, the CEO of Biosynthetic Technologies, about the sustainability of his company’s products and why he thinks su ...

Thailand’s central government is working to develop its palm oil industry, and the strategy includes promoting demand for bio-lubricants, -greases a ...

The global passenger fleet could reach 145 million units by the end of the decade, predicts the International Energy Agency in its 2021 Global Electri ...

Southwest Research Institute is launching this month an industry consortium, Advanced Fluids for Electrified Vehicles, in what the institute called an ...

Additive technology goes green. Green additives are escaping their hamster wheel of low volumes, high costs, incremental improvements and niche lub ...

Electrically conductive layer deposits are emerging as a new corrosion concern in electric motors in hybrid and electric vehicles, and developing test ...

Two legacy car companies, Jaguar and Volvo, announced recently that they will sell only battery electric cars, joining Bentley and General Motors this ...

Since the first steam trains of early 19th century England, locomotives have been an invaluable boon to trade and civilization. While the rise of air ...

The Mechanical Engineering Industry Association in Germany last week urged the European Commission to change course on the development of Euro 7, argu ...

General Motors, the world’s fifth-largest carmaker, said it would stop producing internal combustion engine vehicles by 2035 and “aspires” to be ...

Launches, installations and innovations carried on regardless through the second pandemic upsurge in Europe, the United States and Southeast Asia. ...