Electric Vehicle Policy: 30% Cars Will Be Converted To Electricity By 2030 In Pakistan

[Kabira]

How exactly do you intend to have megawatts of charging stations everywhere? From where will you get new wiring system for these?


The electricity power needed will be too much that entire wiring system will have to be changed. Also, majority o oil is used in diesel,kerosene (aircrafts) and petrochemicals. Only small amount is petrol. So, despite so much infrastructure expenditure, the end goal will be limited.

New infrastructure will be build to support electric cars. Not hard to understand.

 

[El Sidd]

Ambitious Project by the GoP.

However Electric mobility is the future but in 3rd world exploding batteries may not be a very wise idea if Proper lawmaking for safety regulations is not ensured.

 

[Kabira]

Your electricity bill in Pakistan shoots up after 300 units.
I haven't seen usual home charging even in US. People prefer charging at stations. Charging EV at home is painfully slow.

In west night electricity rate is lower. Speed is slower but one also can charge at home for much longer.

 

[Smarana Mitra]

New infrastructure will be build to support electric cars. Not hard to understand.

The infrastructure is too huge to be feasible. A car with 80KWH battery to be charged in 12 hours needs a 7KW connection. Thiw means every house infrastructure which is generally 2-3kW will have to be upgraded to 8-9kW. In addition, entire street wiring must be be changed to accomplish this. In addition, there is also a problem of increasing the power production as well as long distance travel recharges which cause significant infrastructure problem.
This is impractical for any country. That is why EV has only remained a hype. Even in USA, EV hasn't been able to capture 2% share

 

[Asad200]

Consider you can't put in petrol at home. You can charge your car. I was an electric non believer too.

You should ask a person who has charged a EV at home. How painfully slow is it and how many hrs it takes at home to charge.
Fuel cell technology seems more realistic than pure EV. As filling H2 is not a lengthy process. They also have actually Electric Motors to drive and no combustion engine but generator converts H into electricity. Toyota Mirai and BMW X5 i are examples.

In west night electricity rate is lower. Speed is slower but one also can charge at home for much longer.

It would take two days at that voltage.

 

[Trango Towers]

electricity production will be there for it? the most damaging is the trucks and lack of professional mechanics to maintain them and ABSOLUTELY NO CONSCIOUS IN THE PUBLIC ABOUT EMISSIONS.

Electric Vehicle Policy: 30% Cars Will Be Converted To Electricity By 2030 In Pakistan
Climate change and a non-systematic approach towards the issue has been a cause of concern for environmental experts in Pakistan.
By Eminraja On Sep 20, 2019

To fight climate change and tackle threats posed by it, Ministry of Climate Change is working to formulate an extensive Electric Vehicle Policy. It is likely to be put forward in the next cabinet meeting for approval.

Adviser to the prime minister on climate change, Malik Amin Aslam, said that under the said policy, 30% of the vehicles in Pakistan will be converted to electricity till 2030. He expressed his views while addressing a conference “Combating Air Pollution, Saving Lives, Saving Planet”.

The said conference was arranged by Department of Environmental Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), collaborating with Foundation for Progress and ministries of climate change and national health services in the federal capital.

Climate change and a non-systematic approach towards the issue has been a cause of concern for environmental experts in Pakistan. They attempted to bring the attention of the government, political leadership and policymakers towards the issue through this conference and requested for substantial measures reducing air pollution and short-term climate pollutants.

Environmental damage was discussed in detail, along with the different implications it has on human life and social settings. The adviser to the prime minister, Malik Amin Aslam, told the gathering that they were taking essential and sizable measures to fight the crisis in the sector of transportation.

There has been a trend that around 60 percent of the world countries started shifting automobiles to modern electric cars which release around 70 % fewer emissions. However, countries like China and India among others have set targets for 2030,” the adviser previously said.

”Therefore, the prime minister has been apprised to devise a mechanism for setting up targets and policy-making to adopt electric cars. There are four major benefits of electric cars: the import of oil will be reduced and the country will be able to save US$2 billion in terms of oil expenses, eco-friendly technology to reduce vehicular emissions to a reasonable level, opportunity to become electric car exporter like China which is a leader in this market, it can help generate green economy.”

Lithium Ion batteries are another potential component in green energy solutions which is getting cheaper day by day and has become a useful technology applied in electric cars.

Lithium Ion batteries, he said, are another potential resort for green energy solutions. With being a sustainable solution, they are also cheaper. Pakistan will soon he indulging in manufacturing the batteries and CNG stations will be changed into e-charging stations.
https://blog.siasat.pk/30-cars-converted-electricity-2030-pakistan/

Bull

 

[Smarana Mitra]

You should ask a person who has charged a EV at home. How painfully slow is it and how many hrs it takes at home to charge.
Fuel cell technology seems more realistic than pure EV. As filling H2 is not a lengthy process. They also have actually Electric Motors to drive and no combustion engine but generator converts H into electricity. Toyota Mirai and BMW X5 i are examples.

Fuel cell appears to be more practical than EV. But filling H2 is a problem. H2 is not easily available in nature as H2 is highly reactive. Moreover, storing H2 is difficult as these hydrogen molecules are extremely small and escape through the pores of steel, copper or any concrete tanks in which it is stored.

But, even then regular production of H2 using rooftop solar and electrolysis of water and making up the leakage by regular refilling is more practical than EV.

 

[Asad200]

Fuel cell appears to be more practical than EV. But filling H2 is a problem. H2 is not easily available in nature as H2 is highly reactive. Moreover, storing H2 is difficult as these hydrogen molecules are extremely small and escape through the pores of steel, copper or any concrete tanks in which it is stored.

But, even then regular production of H2 using rooftop solar and electrolysis of water and making up the leakage by regular refilling is more practical than EV.

Yes that's the problem with H.
So in reality we would see mixture of gasoline, EV and fuel cell vehicles. Till we get something better to store electricity, EVs are not taking over the full market.

 

[RoadRunner401]

The battery technology that Tesla uses is owned by panasonic
The part of gigafactory which makes batteries leased to Panasonic

Watch from 2:20 mark

Panasonic makes cells for the battery not the whole thing. I was researching the new battery plant in China, which so far has no mention of Panasonic, but you are correct and I apologize for my mistake.

 

[American Pakistani]

Good but I hope they will manufacture the cars and batteries in Pakistan.

If done properly, it will slash import bill, will have positive impacts on climate which will also help the yield of agricultural products. Not to mention reduction in lungs diseases and few types of cancer disease.

A welcoming policy but I do hope it is not just a farce, but they strictly enforce it.

 

[Bilal Khan (Quwa)]

Good but I hope they will manufacture the cars and batteries in Pakistan.

If done properly, it will slash import bill, will have positive impacts on climate which will also help the yield of agricultural products. Not to mention reduction in lungs diseases and few types of cancer disease.

A welcoming policy but I do hope it is not just a farce, but they strictly enforce it.

IMO the key here is getting ahead of the need for batteries. What will it take to localize the production of batteries? I get that there's a constraint with rare earth metals, we'll need to import those, but what of manufacturing?

 

[American Pakistani]

IMO the key here is getting ahead of the need for batteries. What will it take to localize the production of batteries? I get that there's a constraint with rare earth metals, we'll need to import those, but what of manufacturing?

The advantage for Pakistan is that we have China at our door steps, and is a friendly country. We can learn alot from them.

Also this following image might help readers realize how the sales of EV's will sky rocket in next decade, and Pakistan can easily grab some market share if implement the EV friendly policies. As of right now very few countries have attention toward this market. Mostly it is US and China.

 

[Bilal Khan (Quwa)]

The advantage for Pakistan is that we have China at our door steps, and is a friendly country. We can learn alot from them.

Also this following image might help readers realize how the sales of EV's will sky rocket in next decade, and Pakistan can easily grab some market share if implement the EV friendly policies. As of right now very few countries have attention toward this market. Mostly it is US and China.

The challenge with China is that they're more efficient at making batteries, so our suppliers will either source theirs or they might pin our market with lower-priced goods. We'd have to learn to make good batteries at a lower cost, which would take serious R&D and IP creation. I'm for all it.

 

[Kabira]

News from 2012 but maybe it will be possible to use locally extracted mineral for batteries.

Test confirms rare earth metals in KP and Fata

Analytical work on surface outcrops has indicated presence of 2-10 kg/ton of four rare earth metals in Malakand and Fata. This was stated by former Manager Mines and Mineral, Fata Development Authority (FDA), Mohammad Yaqub Shah while talking to Business Recorder.

The analytical work on surface outcrops pertaining to Malakand Agency and Fata was conducted at Pinstec Laboratories (Nelore, Islamabad). While elsewhere in the world deposits containing a maximum of 10 kilogram/ton of total rare earth metals are being worked out. The Government of Japan, in November 2010 through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs showed their interest in this particular mineral commodity in Pakistan by requesting preliminary information for their consideration and subsequently offering their recommendations for the development/mining of these minerals to the Government of Pakistan.

The matter was conveyed to the Ministry of P&NR Islamabad for accordingly action. As customary in our country, this golden opportunity for the development of a very important minerals group which, of course, could have brought substantial FDI apart from other immense benefits, was not pursued properly.

It is worthwhile to state here that Japan having an annual consumption of 27,000 tons of REE has recently discovered a huge resource of this vital group of minerals in the sea mud of the Pacific Ocean up to 6,000 meters below the ocean surface at 78 locations and is planning to extract the deposits by pumping up the material from the ocean floor.

This group of 17 metals which habitually occur in the nature together is strategically so important that a former Chinese President Deng Xiaoping recognised its importance almost two decades ago. "The Middle East has oil and China has rare earths",

According to a recent Congressional Research Service Report, world demand for rare earth metals will continue to grow with the growth of the middle class, especially in China, India and Africa. Demand will continue to grow because high tech products and renewable energy technology cannot function without rare earth metals.

In Pakistan, several occurrences of a peculiar rock type, namely carbonatite, globally recognised to contain these metals have already been reported from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and adjoining Khyber Agency (Fata) in over a 150km long and discontinuous belt, extending from Pak-Afghan border in the west up to Tarbela area in the east. So far, seven of such occurrences have already been reported at the localities of Loe-Shilman, (Khyber Agency) and Sillai Patti, Khungi, Jambil, Koga, Tarbela and Jawar areas, all lying in Malakand Division, Swat Division and Swabi districts.

However, it is still not too late for the nucleolus of planers of Pakistan to begin to see the potential in these minerals. Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation (PMDC), a federally owned commercial entrepreneur, mandated for the whole spectrum of mineral sector activities right from exploration to ultimate utilization can play a pivotal role according to its Memorandum of Association by initiating a project for exploration and evaluation of the rare earth metals in Pakistan.

In this context PMDC has the privilege to enter into any type of JV partnership with respective Provincial Govt''s. entities and National or Multinational Organisations such as Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, Geological Survey of Pakistan, Fata Development Authority etc for acquiring financial, regulatory and technical assistance etc.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2012

 

[Yaseen1]

I think it is difficult to get rare earth elements at sufficient amount from every place that is why they are called as rare earths as they are rare ,afghanistan has huge reserves of lithium which can help us in battery production if afghan taliban take control of afghanistan and u.s move out from afghanistan

News from 2012 but maybe it will be possible to use locally extracted mineral for batteries.

Test confirms rare earth metals in KP and Fata

Analytical work on surface outcrops has indicated presence of 2-10 kg/ton of four rare earth metals in Malakand and Fata. This was stated by former Manager Mines and Mineral, Fata Development Authority (FDA), Mohammad Yaqub Shah while talking to Business Recorder.

The analytical work on surface outcrops pertaining to Malakand Agency and Fata was conducted at Pinstec Laboratories (Nelore, Islamabad). While elsewhere in the world deposits containing a maximum of 10 kilogram/ton of total rare earth metals are being worked out. The Government of Japan, in November 2010 through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs showed their interest in this particular mineral commodity in Pakistan by requesting preliminary information for their consideration and subsequently offering their recommendations for the development/mining of these minerals to the Government of Pakistan.

The matter was conveyed to the Ministry of P&NR Islamabad for accordingly action. As customary in our country, this golden opportunity for the development of a very important minerals group which, of course, could have brought substantial FDI apart from other immense benefits, was not pursued properly.

It is worthwhile to state here that Japan having an annual consumption of 27,000 tons of REE has recently discovered a huge resource of this vital group of minerals in the sea mud of the Pacific Ocean up to 6,000 meters below the ocean surface at 78 locations and is planning to extract the deposits by pumping up the material from the ocean floor.

This group of 17 metals which habitually occur in the nature together is strategically so important that a former Chinese President Deng Xiaoping recognised its importance almost two decades ago. "The Middle East has oil and China has rare earths",

According to a recent Congressional Research Service Report, world demand for rare earth metals will continue to grow with the growth of the middle class, especially in China, India and Africa. Demand will continue to grow because high tech products and renewable energy technology cannot function without rare earth metals.

In Pakistan, several occurrences of a peculiar rock type, namely carbonatite, globally recognised to contain these metals have already been reported from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and adjoining Khyber Agency (Fata) in over a 150km long and discontinuous belt, extending from Pak-Afghan border in the west up to Tarbela area in the east. So far, seven of such occurrences have already been reported at the localities of Loe-Shilman, (Khyber Agency) and Sillai Patti, Khungi, Jambil, Koga, Tarbela and Jawar areas, all lying in Malakand Division, Swat Division and Swabi districts.

However, it is still not too late for the nucleolus of planers of Pakistan to begin to see the potential in these minerals. Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation (PMDC), a federally owned commercial entrepreneur, mandated for the whole spectrum of mineral sector activities right from exploration to ultimate utilization can play a pivotal role according to its Memorandum of Association by initiating a project for exploration and evaluation of the rare earth metals in Pakistan.

In this context PMDC has the privilege to enter into any type of JV partnership with respective Provincial Govt''s. entities and National or Multinational Organisations such as Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, Geological Survey of Pakistan, Fata Development Authority etc for acquiring financial, regulatory and technical assistance etc.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2012