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History of Electric Vehicles in India

Get Electric Vehicle

The cars were powered by a 72-volt lead-acid battery. It had an AC induction motor and a 96V lead-acid battery pack as its power source. MEML was closed in 2004 due to a lack of demand. However, this product has yet to be commercialised. 2000 – BHEL developed an eighteen-seater electric bus in 2000.

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Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

Revenge of the Electric Car

Automakers and the administration convinced air board members that hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles were a more viable technology than battery-operated cars, despite the fact that fuel-cell vehicles currently cost about $1 million each and are believed to be at least fifteen to thirty years away from mass production. The conversion is simple.

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