IIT Madras Sustainability Campus

An article in the newspaper Business Line of 25 March mentions that the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is planning to develop a cutting-edge Sustainability Campus on a 100 acre site given to it by Auroville, with 20 acres dedicated to the Centre of Excellence for Zero Emission Trucking (CoEZET). CoEZET will establish a testing and research facility for electric trucks. The objective is to intensify efforts to accelerate India’s transition to electric trucking as trucks currently contribute 45% of the country’s transport emissions.