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ATHER 450X Gen 3 – Review after 4000 km of travel

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I am so excited to drive an electric scooter than an IC engine motorcycle now. Let’s assume that the on-road price of a Petrol Scooter is 96,000 (Ex-showroom + Registration + Insurance) and Ather 450X costs 1,73,100 in Kerala. Another interesting thing is that I need not go to the petrol pumps to fill the fuel.

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Testing the Rowwet electric scooter : Eleq

Plug In India

They have 4 models of electric scooters and also plan to launch some motorcycles. So each of them can store about 0.15 One of the dealer revenue models that was discussed for the Click batteries is to provide charging aka petrol bunks to the Rowwett gaddi owners. Here are my thoughts. kWh of energy going in. 50 per charge.

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OLA Electric Scooter Ownership Blog - Dark Knight

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Of course in the current era of 2w there is no point buying a petrol 2w it just doesn’t makes sense, with so many EV options. Current premium 2w EV's, give a tough fight to 125-150 Cc Petrol motorcycles. We can control only things which our at our end only, for start we can shun ICE usage, just a basic commute by foot.

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Visiting PURE EV factory | Startup Showcase | ETryst electric motorcycle first look

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ETryst Electric Motorcycle The high point of the visit was testing out their motorcycle - the ETryst. In conventional ICE motorcycles you have the tank which goes down on both sides of a central frame element. Since you are storing petrol inside, functionality does not get affected for that reason.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks. DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Also, besides giving you the ability to charge at night when most utility rates are lower, future vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology may allow you to sell some of your stored energy back to the utilities. Currently, there are some industrial facilities that use battery swapping to replenish the energy stores of electric forklifts.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Then consider that in order to actually go any farther than the neighbood store, one still had to have ANOTHER car. Theyre not trying to send men to the moon, theyre building an ELECTRIC CAR that uses a petrol motor they already make charging batteries supplied by LG all bolted into a vehicle platform they also already have in production.

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