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@Driving SaintWell, they do have the infrastructure of a small car to convert into EV, recently the Tata Nexon came out in EV form but at approximately 15 lac INR.
Hyundai might bring about the Venue EV variant.
Currently, I am seeing a lot of e-veritos around the city, it looks like they are being offered under 10 lac INR.
Although I am very sceptical with the usage of electric vehicles as I do not believe they will bring down overall carbon emissions. Electric vehicles will help improve air quality within the cities but on an overall scale, I do not see an advantage as India's majority of electricity is coal-generated.
N range looks like a sporty car to zip around the city for sure.
Please find below the reliability of India currently on thermal power.
MW | % of total production | |
Total Thermal | 2,30,701 | 62.8% |
Coal | 1,98,495 | 54.2% |
Lignite | 6,760 | 1.7% |
Gas | 24,937 | 6.9% |
Diesel | 510 | 0.1% |
looking at these graphs going electric will only put more load on our energy generation and as we can infer from the graph that India is 62%+ dependent on thermal power, we would not be doing any environmental good in terms of reducing overall pollution.