Industry
How is India driving to electric mobility?edit
On Monday, Ola Electric Mobility Pvt. Ltd. said in a statement that Ratan Tata, Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons, had invested an unspecified amount to support its ambitions to scale up electric vehicle deployment in India. Ola Electric is undertaking several pilot programmes including charging solutions, battery swapping stations, and deploying two-and three-wheeler electric vehicles
Top automakers cheer govt push for EV localization driveedit
Top automakers have cheered the government’s recent push to localise manufacturing for hybrid and electric vehicle (xEV) under the revised norms of the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &) Electric Vehicles Scheme (FAME 2).
High-powered team from Kerala to visit UK to explore e-mobilityedit
The state government’s plan to switch to e-mobility platform is poised to get a thrust as a high-level delegation from Kerala visits the United Kingdom in June. The four-member team led by Transport Minister A K Saseendran is scheduled to embark on the foreign visit from June 1st to 9th.
Shared Mobility: Govt to Allow Private Car Owners to Earn Money as Part-Time Cabbies!edit
Every single day, an average of 1,750 new vehicles are registered, owing to the boom in vehicle population. It now stands at 80.45 lakh. This is the situation in Bengaluru alone. Imagine what it might be for the rest of the country.
Ola focuses on two and three-wheelers for EV adoption; 4-wheeler to take timeedit
Expecting rapid adoption of four-wheeler electric vehicles at a mass scale to take time, ride-hailing firm Ola is betting big on two and three-wheelers for its electric mobility drive, according to a senior company official.
Competition
Electric bike co Okinawa to set up Rs 200 crore plant in Rajasthanedit
Gurgaon-based electric two-wheeler manufacturer Okinawa Autotech is investing Rs 200 crore to set up a second manufacturing plant in Rajasthan. The company has acquired land near Bhiwadi for the new plant, which will have a total manufacturing capacity of one million units.
International
The Technological Culture of Ethical Transportationedit
Emma Thompson in overalls was as much a sight to behold as was the fact that she traveled 5,456 miles from Los Angeles to London to take part in the Extinction Rebellion protest last month.
Drivers plugging into an electric future will need a lot of chargersedit
The burghers of Hull have good reason to be angry. The electric car revolution seems to have driven right past them. Any owners of electric cars among the 280,000 population of the East Yorkshire city share about 20 public charging points. Among the dreaming spires of Oxford, however, there are 108 for the university city’s 160,000 residents.
China’s electric vehicle market: A storm of competition is comingedit
China’s booming electric vehicle industry is headed for some tough price competition followed by a shakeout, according to experts. The competitive landscape for China’s EV market is changing dramatically on several fronts. The phase-out of Chinese government subsidies on EVs is set to gather speed in June before they are eliminated by 2020.