Thursday, July 31, 2008
Eco-Nano proceeding
The Eco-nano is still proceeding, Electric car fuelled by compressed air, mentoned earlier in this blog. Tata Motors also announced earlier this year it is in talks with Chrysler on developing electric vehicles.
In India, there are seven motorcycles sold for every car, according to the World Bank. An all-electric or efficient diesel option would certainly decrease from those concerns. However, with India being coal powered, and lagging on emissions standards, it's not clear how much greener these cars really will be.
But for the first time since the project got under way in January last year, Tata Motors recently signalled they may be reaching the end of their tether."Well, we are continuing as long as our patience lasts," says Ravi Kant, MD, Tata Motors. The Tata Motors' project has been said to be the biggest feather in Buddhadeb Bhattacharya's cap. But that is showing dangerous signs of getting mired in deep trouble.
IMO: Lets hope a less polluting vehicle succeeds. But the Marxists at any rate, seem to have been handling the Singur and Nandigram projects badly and on the face of it, it looks like bad use of fertile delta land for an industrial project which presumably could have been built on non agriculatural land. Also what about the peasants and will India ever get clean electric power, 123 and all that, they still do not seem to have made best use of Mumbai track quadrupling, many partly blame lack of electric energy - and undoubtely there is that.
The Eco-nano is still proceeding, Electric car fuelled by compressed air, mentoned earlier in this blog. Tata Motors also announced earlier this year it is in talks with Chrysler on developing electric vehicles.
In India, there are seven motorcycles sold for every car, according to the World Bank. An all-electric or efficient diesel option would certainly decrease from those concerns. However, with India being coal powered, and lagging on emissions standards, it's not clear how much greener these cars really will be.
But for the first time since the project got under way in January last year, Tata Motors recently signalled they may be reaching the end of their tether."Well, we are continuing as long as our patience lasts," says Ravi Kant, MD, Tata Motors. The Tata Motors' project has been said to be the biggest feather in Buddhadeb Bhattacharya's cap. But that is showing dangerous signs of getting mired in deep trouble.
IMO: Lets hope a less polluting vehicle succeeds. But the Marxists at any rate, seem to have been handling the Singur and Nandigram projects badly and on the face of it, it looks like bad use of fertile delta land for an industrial project which presumably could have been built on non agriculatural land. Also what about the peasants and will India ever get clean electric power, 123 and all that, they still do not seem to have made best use of Mumbai track quadrupling, many partly blame lack of electric energy - and undoubtely there is that.
# posted by uv : 1:56 AM
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