Delhi Government Starts Trial of Olectra-BYD Electric Bus to Combat Increasing Pollution Levels

[thesolar65]

In future the country who has the best battery tech. will rule the world.

 

[GeraltofRivia]

We talked about this in other threads and told you we don't have infrastructure though. Please explain this though -

What I mean by that is for a relatively mature market, replacing the vehicle with EV widespreadly would be difficult because the existing vehicles have a lot life left and owners cannot just retire their vehicles and buy new EV. So the transition from to EV is going to be a long process.

Given the private car market in India is still in early stage, the new vehicles that are entering the market can potentially have a greater proportion of EV, provided that they are competitive in price and functionality. So considerable number of new owners in India can buy their first car in EV and probably don’t need to consider combustion vehicles again 10 years time. I guess it will take another 10 years before we start to see car sales volume explode in Indian market, so the EV should be a lot more mature and competitive at that point.

 

[Nilgiri]

What I mean by that is for a relatively mature market, replacing the vehicle with EV widespreadly would be difficult because the existing vehicles have a lot life left and owners cannot just retire their vehicles and buy new EV. So the transition from to EV is going to be a long process.

Given the private car market in India is still in early stage, the new vehicles that are entering the market can potentially have a greater proportion of EV, provided that they are competitive in price and functionality. So considerable number of new owners in India can buy their first car in EV and probably don’t need to consider combustion vehicles again 10 years time. I guess it will take another 10 years before we start to see car sales volume explode in Indian market, so the EV should be a lot more mature and competitive at that point.

Yep, similar kind of thing went on in India w.r.t mobile phones vs landlines when telecoms was opened up in the 90s. A lot of hard infra cost was saved by skipping right to cellphones.