Indian Gov: Commercial>Electric by 2020

homer911

Govt To Replace All Commercial Cars With Electric Vehicles By 2020

http://trak.in/tags/business/2017/02/06/electric-vehicles-commercial-cars-hero-electric-scooter/

DrPhilG

LOL

I visit India every year. There's more chance of Ireland meeting their 50,000 vehicles target than India hitting those goals.

unkel

Family member is living / teaching English in China. He got one of those electric scooters for about €300. Incredible value for money, you can barely buy a half decent push bike for that money over here.

If India succeeds to replace 5% of all those stinky polluting Honda 50s and the like out there with these by 2020, they'll be doing well...

Kitsunegari

The Indian government cannot guarantee a constant supply of electricity in India never mind supplying and maintaining a fleet of electric vehicles. It's a good ambition to have to but you would have to see it as completely unrealistic. Electric cars in India will continue to fail unless the infrastructure is built to maintain them.

axe2grind

A previous article mentioned 2030 which is more plausible. More than half (up to 70% depending on sources) of electricity is coal based. This is not going to change in a hurry either.

slave1

India getting brutal on defending production on Indian soil, they want high exports and low imports and huge subsidies available e.g. in pharma they offer a third of the manufacturing costs back in cash when the company is exporting, in the generic pharmaceutical business (me) it's making it very very hard to complete as we can't manage our cost base that low...

So I'm saying that behind it is likely all the vehicles have to me manufactured on Indian soil and given their population that's huge opportunities

cros13

They have some comparatively nice EVs. I driven a Mahindra e2o and it's pretty good, a practical EV with ~90-100km real world range.
The problems are:
It's at least €9000 (before city incentives) and pitched against city cars like the maruti alto which sells for as little as €3600.
There's nowhere to charge it except at home.

They've had a lot more success with LPG which is available everywhere.
The indian electricity grid is changing fairly quickly given its scale.
A lot of solar being built since they removed inter-state tariffs on renewables in 2015/16.
Several cases now of new coal power plants with full permits being cancelled in favor of solar PV.

positron

DrPhilG wrote: »

LOL

I visit India every year. There's more chance of Ireland meeting their 50,000 vehicles target than India hitting those goals.

Underestimate India at your own risk, because India is changing so rapidly and yet so differently in different parts it's really hard to comprehend. More importantly change is often bottom-up rather than policies pushed down by the government. I know a lot of people in India who have installed solar panels & water heaters out of their own pocket because it made financial sense. Interestingly unreliable electricity supply is what triggers most people to install their own battery packs & inverters at home in the first place, and then solar panels are easy add-ons that makes sense.