India Aims To Put One Million Electric Vehicles On the Road By Mid-2019 (indiatimes.com) 76
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.
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For what its worth in the thread about India's Hyperloop project jma05 informed me that my observations about public transit were invalid because not all states in India are the same and I probably can't name them all anyway and India sends engineers to the U.S. (like who knew). So my comment went from +5 Insightful to -1 Troll based on that. I know where you are coming from.
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Yeah, who cares about the Native Americans who lived in North America for 10,000 years, history started when the white men showed up.
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Steel age cultures wipe out stone age cultures whenever they meet. Duh.
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and started writing it down with recording technology, that is,
pen + paper.+ writen language
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Might that many ... (Score:2)
Electric Rickshaws (Score:2)
The electric rickshaw would be viable...
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Power source (Score:3)
Re: Power source (Score:2, Informative)
India is also adding thousands of megawatts from all sources. India is expected to be power surplus by 2019.. So they are thinking about it
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Using electric vehicles is nice, but that require extra power generation. What are they planning?
everything but they really like solar.
the wiki article [wikipedia.org] has lots of info about their growing power systems.
India's renewable energy sector is amongst the world's most active players in renewable energy utilization, especially solar and wind electricity generation. -- wikipedia
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Nuclear power.
http://www.newindianexpress.co... [newindianexpress.com]
http://www.business-standard.c... [business-standard.com]
http://timesofindia.indiatimes... [indiatimes.com]
https://www.reuters.com/articl... [reuters.com]
http://www.hindustantimes.com/... [hindustantimes.com]
Sure, in those stories you'll find India planning on adding 2 or 3 GW of solar energy capacity. You'll also see plans to add 7 to 10 GW of nuclear energy capacity. They know they can't rely on the sun and wind alone to keep their economy going.
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India has over 100GW of renewable capacity - that is about a third of the total capacity. Nuclear is barely a blip on the radar - less than 2% of the total capacity, and judging from the plans for the next decades, even by 2035 nuclear won't overtake wind power that is already installed today. They mostly invest in nuclear to keep their military program from running out of specialists.
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They mostly invest in nuclear to keep their military program from running out of specialists.
They need 700MW civilian reactors to do this? And potentially dozens of them? I'd think a much smaller reactor would keep them trained, it would certainly save on costs to make them smaller. It also does not seem to follow given that they intend to double their nuclear power generation capacity in ten years, and double it again in another ten years. Seems to me that they intend to make nuclear power a much larger portion of their electrical generation capacity, not just train their navy crews and such.
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Like I said, even if they quadruple their nuclear capacity in the next twenty years, it will still be less than the wind capacity today. And I mean not all renewables altogether, just the wind power. Nuclear is used as a backup because they don't want to put all eggs into one basket, not as a major contributor.
And since India is expanding their military nuclear program by building several SSBNs, they obviously need qualified people who can actually build nuclear reactors. A much smaller reactor for the trai
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A much smaller reactor for the training won't do, especially when you know how Indians work
It doesn't have to be "much smaller" only the same size. A nuclear submarine will have a reactor with an output in the ballpark of 100 MW, perhaps as high as 200 MW and perhaps as low as 80 MW. Nobody would model this with a 1000 MW or even a 500 MW reactor. The reactors in any current or planned nuclear submarine, or surface ship, are light water reactors fueled with highly enriched (25% to 90%) uranium-235. The planned civilian reactors that India is building are dominated by heavy water reactors that
Thorium reactors .. (Score:3)
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Refineries usually eat their own dog food. ...
Aka: they use oil to refine and crack oil
And if one is interested: pipelines, especially for gas, work the same way. They use the fuel they transport to power the pumps. I always have to shake my head when people are yelling about "transportation losses" of electricity ...
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They charge at night? When the plants are idle?
Re:COAL POWER! (Score:5, Informative)
The electricity in India is made from coal.
50 GW of coal capacity is under construction or planned by 2027.
100 GW of renewable capacity is under construction or planned by 2027.
They are also working on thorium reactors [wikipedia.org]
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So you agree with him? Hint: Capacity factor.
Capacity factor (Score:2)
You must be new around here!
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"The electricity in India is made from coal."
Really! You seem to think you know a lot about India, while the truth remained just a wikipedia search away: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_India
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In the 1970s India paid men to get vasectomies.
Many men that already had their families literally got dozens of vasectomies.
That's the future (Score:2)
To put that in perspective: (Score:2)
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
Of course they would (Score:1)
Maybe A Wrong Number (Score:2)
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When they say 'cars' we'd say 'golf carts'. But that's actually a good vehicle for many uses and roads.