Industry
EV and the Future of Automobile Industryedit
The automobile industry’s quest to limit its impact on the environment and transform the landscape into a sustainable mode of transportation, is at high intensity, despite the recent economic crisis. The electric car maker Tesla manufactures not only all-electric vehicles, but also generates clean energy and manufactures storage products that are infinitely scalable.
Guj Govt eyes 2.20 lakh crore investment in renewable energyedit
The Gujarat government is eyeing cumulative investment of Rs 2,20,000 crore during the next 10 years in the renewable energy sector, said state Energy Minister Saurabh Patel here Thursday.
Government employees lead the way for cleaner, greener Electric Cars: Government cars to go electric soon!edit
Forget Hindustan Ambassadors, loud sirens ministers will from now on forth be identified by the preceding silence of their vehicles as the Department of Expenditure has issued a memorandum for the switch of all government vehicles from conventional to Electric Vehicles. The shift has been initiated with the some departments within the ministry including the Department of Economic Affairs, as well as the Ministry of Finance already inducting 15 electric vehicles into their fleet.
Industry view points building electric vehicle ecosystemedit
As worsening air pollution and mounting crude-import bill haunt the nation, India looks at electric vehicles to ride out of this jam. Policymakers, industrialists, and academicians – everyone has an opinion on the path we should take towards e-mobility. Whether to incentivise all electric vehicle technologies or only concentrate on fully electric vehicles? Whether to give subsidies on the demand-side, or to subsidise setting up of parts manufacturing? Nehal Chaliawala reports as the stakeholders put forth their views at a recently conducted industry conference.
Govt unveils National Clean Air Programmeedit
Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan Thursday launched the much-awaited National Clean Air Programme to improve air quality by 20 to 30 per cent in next five years with 2017 as the base year. He said besides reducing air pollution concentration, pollution monitoring networks will be enhanced and activities will be put in place to improve awareness.
Amitabh Kant says there should be no road tax for Electric Vehiclesedit
Niti Aayog Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Amitabh Kant today said the think tank has proposed abolishing road tax for electric vehicles in order to streamline India’s transition towards electric mobility. “In our meeting today, we have proposed to the chief secretaries of states that there should be no road tax for Electric Vehicles (EVs) and issuing green permit for EVs. When the EV revolution happens, India would be impacted in the biggest way,” Kant said at an industry event here.
As cost of renewable energy drops, focus shifts to developing ancillary storage industryedit
With the cost of renewable energy coming down and the market potential expanding, an ancillary industry for storage is the need of the hour, said P.C. Maithani, Advisor, Ministry of New & Renewable Energy. Speaking at the 6th International Conference and Exhibition on Energy Storage, EV & Microgrids here on Thursday, Maithani said the challenge with going purely solar or wind is that solar is available only in the day and wind energy generation can happen between April and September.
Competition
‘Way things are shaping up, diesel is not for the long term’edit
Maruti Suzuki India, which has the most alternative fuel options — petrol, diesel, hybrid and CNG — among the universe of passenger car makers, says diesel will not be an option in the long term. As the BS-VI emission norms kick in, the price of a hybrid vehicle and the one that runs on diesel will be much similar, while the petrol hybrid will score on fuel-efficiency and will be environment-friendly. RC Bhargava, Chairman, Maruti Suzuki India, in an exclusive interview with BusinessLine, also said the government norm that restricts the royalty payment to two per cent and insists on the nod of minority shareholders every year will also translate into a huge compliance cost for the ...
International
Electric Mobility Has a Long Way to Goedit
Fueled largely by the release of Tesla’s “mass market” Model 3, electric vehicle sales in the United States jumped 81 percent in 2018 compared to the previous year. According to InsideEVs, an online platform tracking the progress of electric mobility, plug-in electric vehicle sales amounted to 361,307 in the U.S. last year, up from 199,826 in 2017.
How to drive an electric car that doesn’t need a chargeredit
ONE of the most significant launches at the ongoing Singapore Motorshow 2019 can be found at the Nissan stand, but don’t expect to spot it easily. It’s called e-Power, a system based on the drive unit of an Electric Vehicle (EV) that draws electricity from an on-board, petrol-powered generator. It gives a car the silence and instant response of an EV, but instead of charging a battery the driver buys petrol for the generator.
Honda delays its fun retro-looking all-electric vehicle to 2020, report saysedit
Honda’s first next-gen all-electric vehicle was supposed to go on sale this year, but the production has been pushed to “early 2020” and we might have to temper our expectations when it comes to availability, according to a new report.
Grab says ‘right time’ to introduce electric vehicles, set to roll out 200 Hyundai Konasedit
Ride-hailing firm Grab is set to roll out 200 electric vehicles (EVs) into Singapore’s streets progressively from Friday (Jan 11). Having purchased 200 Hyundai Kona 64 kWH electric cars, Grab will release an initial batch of 20 vehicles on Friday with the rest being introduced over the next few weeks, head of the company’s car leasing service GrabRentals, Kau Yi Ming said in an interview with local media.
GM’s EV owners to get access to 31,000 charging ports in the USedit
General Motors will collaborate with EVgo, ChargePoint and Greenlots, three of the nation’s leading electric vehicle (EV) charging networks, to enable access to one of the largest collective electric vehicle charging network in the United States, including more than 31,000 charging ports. GM plans to aggregate dynamic data from each of the EV charging networks so owners of the all-electric Chevrolet Bolt EV can have a more seamless charging experience with their GM vehicles.
First Look at Lime’s Gen 3 Electric Scooteredit
Electric scooters have spread to cities across the country, and many of them are from Bay Area-based Lime. The e-scooter and transportation rental company, which has partnered with Uber, provided a sneak peek at its third-gen bike back in October, and we saw it in action here at CES.