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Piaggio and SUN Mobility join hands for swappable battery technologyedit
Piaggio Vehicles and SUN Mobility (PVPL) have entered into a strategic partnership swappable battery technology. As part of this tie-up SUN Mobility will support Piaggio with its Smart Batteries and Quick Interchange Stations.
Piaggio to take swappable battery route for electric vehiclesedit
Piaggio Vehicles, the wholly-owned subsidiary of the Italian Piaggio Group, will be launching electric commercial vehicles by taking the swappable battery route. The company has tied up with SUN Mobility, an electric vehicle energy infrastructure company, for its swappable battery technology. As part of the tie-up, SUN Mobility will support Piaggio with its smart batteries with lithium ion technology and quick interchange stations.
Piaggio to launch commercial vehicles range with SUN Mobility’s swappable battery technologyedit
Piaggio Vehicles Pvt Ltd (PVPL), a 100 % subsidiary of the Italian Piaggio Group and India’s leading manufacturer of small commercial vehicles, has entered into a strategic partnership with SUN Mobility, a leading provider of energy infrastructure and services for electric vehicles (EVs), for its swappable battery technology. As part of this tie-up SUN Mobility will support Piaggio with its Smart Batteries and Quick Interchange Stations.
Mention
Driving to E-ndependenceedit
The boastful ‘Made in India’ tags behind most of our electronics and goods are deceptive — by ‘Made’, they only mean assembled, not manufactured. And Pune-based start-up Bhorzvan Motors is determined to set this straight. The technological lag in EVs and electric motors is huge setback in the Centre’s plan to fully transition to electric mobility by the mid of the approaching decade.
Industry
BYD-Olectra, TaMo, Leyland in the Fray to Supply eBusesedit
BYD-Olectra, Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland and PMI Electro Mobility Solutions are among manufacturers in the fray to supply and operate about 1,200 electric buses for different state departments, people aware of the development have said. State transport utilities have floated, or are in the process of floating, tenders for about 5,500 electric buses, and out of these bids for about 1,200 buses have been opened so far, sources said. Chinese automobile maker BYD backed Olectra is eyeing e-bus tenders in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and Odisha, and is the lone bidder in Uttarakhand and Jaipur, while top domestic player Tata Motors has bid for tenders issued by Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat, sources said.
BMTC to lease 6,000 buses in a phased manneredit
The BMTC currently has a fleet of 6,500 buses and is in the process of scrapping a 1,000 old ones. Under the second phase of the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid) and Electric Vehicles in India, it will be leasing 300 e-buses. Tender has been floated to lease the buses through a private operator.
In battle to curb pollution, Delhi awaits EV policyedit
As the Delhi government has re-introduced the odd-even scheme to curb air pollution, the Delhi Electric Vehicle Policy, 2018 awaits to be notified even after close to a year since it was drafted. While the government said it is working on details of the drafts, the manufacturers of electric vehicles said the policy could have played an important role in controlling pollution in the long term.
Government plans panel to improve mobility in Bengaluruedit
The government on Wednesday announced setting up of Bengaluru Mobility Management Authority (BMMA), which will serve as a planning and decision-making body for all matters related to transport in the city. “BMMA will take comprehensive measures to improve public transport, road network, subways and footpaths and it will identify and solve critical problems to provide quality mobility and ease traffic density,” chief minister BS Yediyurappa said following a meeting with urban experts, city planners, bureaucrats and elected representatives.
15 electric buses to be operated from Panbazar to Kamakhyaedit
Sarbananda Sonowal with a vision to make Assam a pollution free state flagged off 15 electric buses to be operated from Panbazar to Kamakhya as a part of the pilot project. The buses were procured under the Centre’s Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles’ (FAME 1) scheme.
Plan for Baner e-bus charging station hits snag over short leaseedit
An unexpected snag has caused a short circuit in plans for a new electric bus charging station in town. Earlier this year, a plot of a little over two acres had been allocated to set up an e-bus charging station at Baner along Pune-Mumbai highway, to be handed over by Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) on lease. Here, Pune Smart City Development Corporation Limited (PSCDCL) was to step in and ready to plot for use.
E-auto, e-rickshaw revolution to begin soon; 5 companies to manufacture e-vehicles…… Read more at: https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/e-auto-e-rickshaw-revolution-to-begin-soon-5-companies-to-manufacture-e-vehicles–1.4257912edit
As part of the electric vehicle revolution, five companies have come forward to manufacture e-autos and e-rickshaws in the state. All companies have made their first model. They will be launched by the beginning of 2020. This is in addition to the government initiative Kerala Automobile Limited.
Working strongly on electric vehicle charging infrastructure: NTPCedit
State-owned NTPC on Wednesday said it is working on electric vehicle charging infrastructure as it believes that ultimately mobility through EVs will help. NTPC Executive Director Mohit Bhargava said electric vehicle is a good concept but the larger issue is related to the battery. “NTPC is working very strongly on the electric vehicle (EV) side. On the charging network side,” Bhargava said addressing India Energy Summit here.
Competition
Battery Life of 80,000 Km: TN Startup’s Electric Moped Has a Range of 180 Km!edit
Meet 23-year-old Guhan RP, the co-founder of Coimbatore-based Gugu Energy, an electric vehicle technology startup along the lines of Tesla Energy. “I was in my second year of engineering when I watched a Tesla video along with my friends, and it inspired us deeply. So, in 2015, we started building an electric car out of my parents’ garage. However, that initial spark of enthusiasm soon dissipated upon realising the cost of building one. But my passion never wavered, and instead focussed on building an electric two-wheeler,” says Guhan, speaking to The Better India.
International
The electric vehicle industry needs to figure out its battery problemedit
Electrifying transportation is one of the biggest keys to solving the looming climate crisis. With more electric vehicles on the road and fewer gas-guzzlers, drivers burn less fossil fuels and put out fewer planet-heating gases into the atmosphere. But as electric vehicles become more popular, they’re posing another environmental challenge: what to do with their batteries once they’re off the road.
Europe slow to standardise electric car charging: ChargePointedit
Inconsistent requirements for charging stations across Europe are keeping the infrastructure for electric cars from growing as fast as it could, the CEO of ChargePoint, one of the world’s largest charging network operators, said on Tuesday. Speaking in Lisbon at the Web Summit, Europe’s largest technology conference, Pasquale Romano said the European Union was the “only governing body” able to tackle the issue.
Pakistan to convert 30% of four, three-wheelers into electric vehiclesedit
Pakistan has approved a policy under which 30 per cent of the four and three-wheelers in the country would be converted into electric vehicles, a move that would help reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and pollution. Federal minister for climate change Malik Amin Aslam after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday shared with media a detailed picture of how the government would implement the national Electric Vehicles (EV) policy, Dawn News reported.