It’s a pleasure connecting back with you all after a brief gap. It was during one of my latest trips to Bangalore, I received the news about clearance of 150 electric buses by Board of Bangalore Metropolitan Corporation from a national daily. With this Bangalore will become the first city to have such a large fleet of Electric Buses for Public Transport in the country. Considering the time taken by public sector undertakings on changing their policies, this radical shift towards Electric Buses by BMTC was thought provoking about the future of mass transit system.
During the same time, news of Ashok Leyland’s launch of ‘Circuit’ Electric Buses inspired us to research more on the development of such ideas and brings to you, our loyal readers, a feature that shows the shift in industry towards adapting the EVs. In 2014, a Chinese Manufacturer approached BMTC with the proposal of inducting Electric Buses in their fleet, and offered an Electric Bus free for trial. At that point of time, the cost of an Electric Bus was three times higher than a regular diesel bus, but the operational cost was 2.5 times lesser. Moreover the pollution-free tag came as a huge relief to our major metros, struggling with absence of quality air and global warming.
The Western countries have kick started the deed by replacing fuel vehicles with Electric ones, and in India local manufacturers like TATA, Ashok Leyland, JBM, KPIT are coming out with Electric Buses and the investment on procuring buses are going to come down. Our team has secured a detailed report about such recent developments along with the challenges the Automobile Components industry is going to witness by this paradigm shift.
For more details on the EVs and its impacts in India you can read our December issue at www.issuu,com/mediamart/docs/december2016
During the same time, news of Ashok Leyland’s launch of ‘Circuit’ Electric Buses inspired us to research more on the development of such ideas and brings to you, our loyal readers, a feature that shows the shift in industry towards adapting the EVs. In 2014, a Chinese Manufacturer approached BMTC with the proposal of inducting Electric Buses in their fleet, and offered an Electric Bus free for trial. At that point of time, the cost of an Electric Bus was three times higher than a regular diesel bus, but the operational cost was 2.5 times lesser. Moreover the pollution-free tag came as a huge relief to our major metros, struggling with absence of quality air and global warming.
The Western countries have kick started the deed by replacing fuel vehicles with Electric ones, and in India local manufacturers like TATA, Ashok Leyland, JBM, KPIT are coming out with Electric Buses and the investment on procuring buses are going to come down. Our team has secured a detailed report about such recent developments along with the challenges the Automobile Components industry is going to witness by this paradigm shift.
For more details on the EVs and its impacts in India you can read our December issue at www.issuu,com/mediamart/docs/december2016
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