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Top Electric Two Wheelers available in India

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Hello friends, once again welcome to my series of blogs on electric vehicles. In last blog we have seen about basics of electric cars and its comparison with conventional internal combustion engine vehicles. Now in this blog we will see about electric two wheeler, what is current market situation, customer response and what are different options available. If you compare with electric cars , electric two Wheeler are fairly known to many of us. I have seen many electric two wheeler in tier 2 cities as well. But with over all increase in demand for 4 wheeler electric vehicles, this segment also getting mainstream attention. In fact, many business analyst predicting 2/3 wheeler electrical vehicle market will be more prominent than 4 wheeler at least in near future. You have seen below images in news that OLA Auto is setting up big plant for electric 2 wheeler and they have also commenced start of sale for these vehicle.  (Image source: Ola India official Site) Sales figures of electr...

Top Electric cars available in India

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Hello friends, once again welcome to my blog on electric vehicles. In last blogs we have seen about basics of electric vehicles and its comparison with conventional internal combustion engine vehicle. In this blog we will see about real scenario of electric cars, sales figures and top affordable electric cars available in India. Even though government and many OEM's are trying to bring more and more electric vehicles on road, but still it’s important to see how many of electric vehicles are actually getting sold and which are options are available for customers.   Sales figures of electric vehicles: If you see scenario before 5 years, electric vehicles sold in few numbers and restricted to specific to metro cities like  Bangalore. However  Electric vehicles are gaining traction in Indian market in last 1-2 years. In FY2020, total  3,400 units of Passenger EVs were sold ,  while in  FY2021 total 5,902 units were sold, so overall  YoY increase of a...

Electric Vehicles: Advantages and limitations over conventional vehicles.

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  Hello friends, welcome once again to second part of the blog on Electric Vehicles. First of all, sorry for delay in posting blog and hope you all are safe in this second wave of COVID 19. Now, after reading first part of blog you might be well acquainted with basics of electric vehicles.  In this blog we will focus on what are key advantages of electric vehicles, what key value propositions of EV are and why it has created so much buzz.  Also we will see what are distinguishing advantages that conventional internal combustion engine have over EV’s which will ensure survival of IC engine longer than its estimated currently. Below figure indicated key advantages and disadvantage of electric vehicles. v   Advantages of Electric Vehicle: 1) No exhaust gases and pollutants: Yes , obvious advantage of EV is that it doesn’t produces any ‘local’ pollutants. This is specially important for big metro cities like Delhi, Mumbai etc. Main push for EV is because of thi...

Electric Vehicles : Historical Development & Basics about EV's

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Hello friends and once again welcome all of you to my blog. Hope you are finding these blogs useful and thanks for all your feedback and suggestions. In previous blogs we saw cars and SUVs available in market. Now in this blog we will discuss about new topic that has created lots of buzz in automotive field i.e. Electric Vehicles.  You might have read news couple of weeks ago that Elon Musk Owner of Tesla became richest person on the planet (even though only for some time). Off course he is having many other companies like Space X ,  Neuralink and The Boring Compan y  etc. but major chunk of his fortune comes from Tesla. There are many economist who can tell you why Tesla topping the charts but one thing I can say that Tesla isn’t selling maximum no. of cars in world but its potential of company in future that investors are betting on. Point I want to make is people sees lots of potential in Electric vehicles in future but what about current situation, are conventiona...

Affordable Passenger Vehicles available in Indian market to buy - Part II

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Hello guys, first of all let me wish you a very happy new year !!!!! .  Hope year 2021 brings health & prosperity to you and your family. Welcome once again to my blog on Affordable passenger vehicles in Indian auto market- Part II . In part –I of the blog we have discussed about classification of passenger car and options available to buy. This time we will focus on another exiting segment i.e. Utility vehicles. Classification of Utility vehicles: Primarily utility vehicles classified into 3 types i.e. Sport Utility Vehicle , Multipurpose Utility Vehicle and pickup vehicles .  From below chart you can get idea how utility vehicles are classified. Unlike passenger cars, utility vehicles have diverse application i.e. it’s not just used as people carrier but for transport of good. We will see details about one by one.   A) Sport Utility Vehicle: Well one segment in passenger vehicle that transformed in last 10 years is SUV’s. Customers prospective towards SUV have been ...