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Electric Car Watch #12: The sad state of Electric Car conversions in India

Plug In India

By Abhishek & Kamlesh ​ In this episode of Electric Car Watch, we will talk about the challenges facing electric car conversions and what the industry and agencies can do better to make it easier. One was the conversion kit by Hyderabad based e-Trio, and the other was Pune based Northway Motorsports. Sounds utopian, right?

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

My Electric Car

In addition, it is subject to similar refining, storage and distribution costs currently associated with petrol and diesel, including upstream CO2 emissions where the electricity required is usually generated from fossil fuels. Fourth, like all fossil fuels hydrogen is highly volatile, far more so than petrol.

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Drive Electric Submission: Auckland Transport Parking Strategy

Drive Electric

Conversely, we have seen that limited charging infrastructure has been one of the main barriers to EV uptake overseas. Dedicated EV parking spaces should contain charging facilities, and should do so in order to meet the definition of being an EV mandated car parking space. These spaces need to be regulated and enforced (e.g.

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RESPONSE TO: Ministry of Transport’s Charging Our Future: Discussion Document

Drive Electric

It is rapidly becoming clear that electric vehicles will replace petrol and diesel ICE vehicles in most use cases.1International New Zealand currently has 4 million passenger cars in its fleet, the vast majority of which are fuelled by petrol and diesel. By definition this issue is not just a transport issue, it’s also an energy issue.

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Tigor EV Highway Drive: Bengaluru - Coimbatore - Ooty - Mysuru

Plug In India

Go to petrol pump owners and find out who are people who are big time consumers. With the cruise control on, managed to have a lovely conversation with Karthik on Jared Diamond’s excellent book Guns, Germs and Steel. (In We shall definitely visit your hotel again. The minimum monthly fuel bill that they run up is Rs.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle technologies are not yet competitive due primarily to the high cost of advanced batteries. People wont buy a full car.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

At current transportation battery prices, that is well beyond the cost of spinning reserve. On the other hand, the cost of a used transportation battery will be set by the next cheapest form of scalable dispatchable storage such as air pressure storage less the battery recycle value. — AH2 14.

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