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Auto firms laud EV draft policy, but flag infra, incentive concerns
Some also pointed to the high cost of electric buses and the financial ability of state transport corporations to buy these.
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EV Motors to set up 6,500 charging stations; Plans to invest Rs 14 billion
The first public electric vehicle charging outlet will be called 'PlugNgo'. The chargers will be networked and connected to PlugNgo's cloud-based integrated software platform
When will commercially viable electric vehicles take to the skies?
A key challenge in building electric aircraft involves how much energy can be stored in a given amount of weight of the on-board energy source
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Delhi draft policy targets 25% of all new vehicles being electric by 2023
The policy provides for up to Rs 22,000 subsidy on purchase of e-two wheelers to ensure cost of commuting comes close to petrol-driven two wheelers
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Bird, Lime and disruption
Two young companies are offering electric two-wheelers for hire via mobile apps to encourage smart, affordable mobility for short distances
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Big oil doesn't like electric vehicle subsidies, just its own giant subsidy
Today's EVs are usually more expensive than regular vehicles, so they are bought by wealthier people
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Business idea: You can set up EV charging station - no need for a licence
The ministry clarified that a station does not perform any activity related to the transmission, distribution or trading of electricity
$6 trillion is what the world has to spend for an electric car-only future
We're at least five years away from bringing the price of a good electric car down to that of comparable conventional one
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Ambitious e-car programme of Energy Efficiency Services has a slow start
According to EESL, the cars that have been leased so far have cumulatively run a million kilometres
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Battery-operated future
Strategic sourcing would be critical to ensure manufacturing competitiveness of EVs
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The dirty secret under the hoods of electric cars no one talks about
Yet regulators haven't set out clear guidelines on acceptable carbon emissions over the life cycle of electric cars
Not so green: Dirty batteries belie electric cars' environmental promise
While electric cars are emission-free on the road, they still discharge a lot of the carbon-dioxide that conventional cars do
Electric two-wheelers: Road to a new mobility is dotted with speedbreakers
Apart from infrastructure and electricity needed to charge an electric vehicle, it is the readiness to accept a such vehicles which is said to be much lower in rural areas
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Maruti Suzuki flags off 50 electric vehicle prototypes for field test
The flagged off proto-type EVs have been developed on an existing model of Suzuki Motor Corporation, Japan
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This Chinese man, and not Elon Musk, is the biggest electric-car visionary
Two decades earlier, Wan Gang persuaded China's State Council to throw its vast power behind the risky, unproven technology of electric cars
Tata Power, HPCL partner to set up electric vehicle charging stations
The two companies will also explore other opportunities for collaboration in renewable energy
Tata Motors to M&M, weak rupee squeezes margins for electric vehicle makers
Taking into account that the localisation level in most of these vehicles is low, at less than 50 per cent, the impact of a weak rupee is high due to high import content
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Blueprint ready for EVs, expects to take its share to 15% in 5 yrs: Gadkari
It's time that India should think seriously to promote green vehicles and curb pollution, says Nitin Gadkari
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India to launch policy to promote e-mobility, fight pollution: Modi
The Prime Minister also said India's economy and reforms were on the move in this direction
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Suzuki to test 50 e-vehicles in India next month, plans launch in 2020
Suzuki said the company has decided to launch EV in India around 2020 in cooperation with Toyota Motor Corporation
