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India Aims To Put One Million Electric Vehicles On the Road By Mid-2019 (indiatimes.com)
gubol123 shares a report from The Economic Times: Six leading car makers are eyeing the government's plan to buy 10,000 electric vehicles while policy makers are considering generous fiscal incentives to make their capital and running cost cheaper than petrol cars within five years. Broadly, the aim is to put on roads one million electric three-wheelers and 10,000 electric city buses by mid-2019 and make India the world leader in at least some segments of the market as the country strives to shift entirely to battery-powered transportation by 2030. In six to eight months, 10,000 e-vehicles are expected to be running in the national capital region. The tender to buy 10,000 e-vehicles has already attracted Tata Motors, Hyundai, Nissan, Renault, Maruti Suzuki and Mahindra & Mahindra, and would be quickly followed by a dramatic scaling up of the e-vehicles program. The tender would be awarded by the end of this month and cars would start rolling in by mid-November.
Have gnu, will travel.
Found the ignorant ugly fat American.
It's a huge country. It's
The electric rickshaw would be viable...
2019 is also the stated target date to stop literally half its population from crapping in the streets and all the accompanying health problems. Probably more important to work on that than electric cars.
Using electric vehicles is nice, but that require extra power generation. What are they planning?
A country where half the place not livable without heat, mainly inhabited for last 350 years, already has 300 million population. Most of india is livable and has inhabitated for thousands of years. It also has one of most arable lands found anywhere on earth. So yes it will be over populated for centuries to come. Anyway most of the world including india can take care of themselves without smart advice from Americans
They are building 100s of millions of them. Here you go https://www.voanews.com/a/on-w... Now do they have your permission to go ahead and work on other priorities
The electricity in India is made from coal.
So really it should say "India Aims To Put One Million Coal Powered Vehicles One the Road By Mid-2019"
India might wipe its filth out in next decade, but the filth i see on this page is here to stay in America. I pity our future generation.
For what its worth in the thread about India's Hyperloop project jma05 informed me that my observations about public transit were invalid because not all states in India are the same and I probably can't name them all anyway and India sends engineers to the U.S. (like who knew). So my comment went from +5 Insightful to -1 Troll based on that. I know where you are coming from.
I know when Microsoft sent me to our location on Mount Rd just south east of Chennai, I expected the worst. It was even worse than that. No wonder the employees there are so terrible and unmotivated.
The location went to was in Peters Road. It was terrible since si many of my coworkers didn't use TP.
I've been there. Most of our coworkers didn't shit in the bathroom. Instead they went outside onto the street. The ones that used the bathrooms were even worse since they threw their shit-stained TP on the floor.
Uhh, we don't shit on streets so why shouldn't we feel better than them?
>Otherwise they'll just drink out of it like a dog, or they'll use it for washing their clothes and disposing of bodies (after they chop them up in little bitty pieces).
Actually it's even more hilarious than that.
http://www.planetcustodian.com/2015/10/03/7873/indian-villagers-worshiping-newly-built-toilets-instead-of-using-them.html
Oh please! Put a sock in it, would ya?
Neither of which screws the rest of the world over.
The US needs to invest into this tech and renewables, not new coal mines.
lets hope they keep them in india...
Why build 1000000 new vehicles, that cost a LOT OF GREENHOUSE gases stupid mofos.
Oh to make a nice profit, ahh stupid fusk.
How about work out how to make a new FREE FUEL that is 100% clean and FREE, DUHHHH and works in current cars/bikes.
OMG wow thats such a brilliant suggestion, oh but you wont make any money on it, ohhhh so you cant become a billion air, oh damn you stupid shit fuk,
A) solar power , make e+, zappp some water+air, Subject this gas mixture to very high pressure to produce ammonia according to the following reaction: 3 H2 + N2 –> 2 NH3.
In 2012 India had about 160 million motorized vehicles of all times registered. This compares to about 260 million vehicles in the US.
There have been a bit over half a million electric vehicles sold here in the US. Assuming nearly all of those are still on the road, India is aiming for roughly 4x the adoption rate of the US.
This seems very doable, because Americans can afford to be picky about vehicles. We want a vehicle that is comfortable, big, fast, and has enough range to take us anywhere we want to go. But even here in major metropolitan cities e-bikes are extremely popular. In India pedicabs are used extensively for both passengers and cargo loads that would be handled by vans in the US.
The whole picture fits together nicely. You have an immense demand for light transportation hat almost doesn't exist in the US. You have serious pollution problems. You have a national effort to develop solar and nuclear electricity generation. Mass production of cheap, lightweight electric vehicle would translate into a huge improvement in standard of living for a lot of people.
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Electric vehicles don't make that putt-putt-putt sound. But the riders do!
There is no international, me-too pissing contest that the Indian government at the time is not involved with immediately. Providing basic services to the more than 600 million citizens who lack them? That is at the bottom of their priorities list.
Who needs an electric car when you poop outside?
Some Indian cities are dying from smog. Take cars and trucks by the amount of pollution they emit. And use it to give rebates to electric vehicles.
Yeah, who cares about the Native Americans who lived in North America for 10,000 years, history started when the white men showed up.
From Wikipedia: The country published about twice the number of papers on thorium as its nearest competitors, during each of the years from 2002 to 2006. The Indian nuclear establishment estimates that the country could produce 500 GWe for at least four centuries using just the country’s economically extractable thorium reserves.
What India needs is a million indoor toilets (a thousand times over)
Yes. Call it the HyperLoo
I seriously doubt that enough batteries can be produced to power 1,000,000 electric cars in less than two years.Simply building the factories to make the batteries will take several years. It is a wonderful idea but the time table is not based upon reality. These cars would also need to be affordable and the population of India is not known for being rich.
Steel age cultures wipe out stone age cultures whenever they meet. Duh.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
In the 1970s India paid men to get vasectomies.
Many men that already had their families literally got dozens of vasectomies.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
You must be new around here!
and started writing it down with recording technology, that is,
pen + paper.+ writen language
Sock? How would they feel the turds between their shitskin toes if they wear socks?