Commerce Made Easy : Electric vehicles without batteries.

3-8-17

India will make electric vehicles but will sell them without batteries.

Indian Government has an ambitious vision to run most of the vehicles on Indian roads on battery power by 2030. This is an attempt to improve the health of the ailing environment due to toxic emission from diesel and petrol vehicles whose number is on the rise. Some of the advantages of electric vehicles will be ‘no smoke’, no noise, no oil use.

Electric vehicles have approximately 20 moving parts in comparison to 2,000 parts in Petrol and diesel vehicles. Electric vehicles have no IC engine hence they do not need oil to operate. They are run by an electric motor, powered by a pack of rechargeable tract ion batteries. The power transmission takes place through conventional gear box and differential. The speed is controlled by an Electronic Chopper Controller and gear changing. The maximum speed is approximately 40 KMPH whereas per charge a electric vehicle runs approximately 70 Km.

Initially the scheme is available for non-AC public transport under which vehicles will be sold without batteries as part of the plan, thus slashing prices by as much as 70%. The batteries will be leased at a specified cost and can be swiftly swapped with recharged ones at various recharge stations which will take 5 to 10 minutes.

The intention behind this scheme, ‘selling electric vehicle without batteries”, is to reduce burden on subsidy provided by Indian government. US, Japan and china have spent billions on subsidy for electric vehicles, but have not gained much as number of electric vehicles is still low as compared to oil based vehicles.

The scheme is also going to give 'Make in India' program a boost. In the beginning, cells for the batteries will be imported. If the scheme clicks, they will be manufactured in India itself.