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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.
Will MightyMartian wish cancer on anyone else for their comments about Indians? MightyMartian is a complete piece of shit.
...to reduce their population that's soon to be living shoulder to shoulder in such a cramped area.
What India needs is a million indoor toilets (a thousand times over) and a million miles of toilet paper! No electricity required. Then maybe you won't have hold your nose when walking the city streets. What a weird country! They must have a hell of an immune system.
And Indians still can't figure out how to poo in the loo.
Or use toilet paper!
Have gnu, will travel.
The electric rickshaw would be viable...
Why would India be so short-sighted? Sigh..
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?
Do you wipe your dishes clean too with paper? Or do you wash them?
Toilet paper is disgusting. But then Americans don't even know how to bathe properly, obese stinking pieces of corn fed pigs.
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"
Vasectomies not vehicles. Stop these people from reproducing at the rate of rats.
What do you wipe your arse with? Your hands?
The US needs to invest into this tech and renewables, not new coal mines.
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.
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.
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.
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