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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.
India is also adding thousands of megawatts from all sources. India is expected to be power surplus by 2019.. So they are thinking about it
Using electric vehicles is nice, but that require extra power generation. What are they planning?
everything but they really like solar.
the wiki article has lots of info about their growing power systems.
India's renewable energy sector is amongst the world's most active players in renewable energy utilization, especially solar and wind electricity generation. -- wikipedia
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The electricity in India is made from coal.
50 GW of coal capacity is under construction or planned by 2027.
100 GW of renewable capacity is under construction or planned by 2027.
They are also working on thorium reactors
Nuclear power.
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Sure, in those stories you'll find India planning on adding 2 or 3 GW of solar energy capacity. You'll also see plans to add 7 to 10 GW of nuclear energy capacity. They know they can't rely on the sun and wind alone to keep their economy going.
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