Dr
Ranjan Ray / Dr Atul Ranjan / Dr Jasvinder Singh /
Dr A K Jain / Dr Poonam Gupta
Indian
Institute of Petroleum
Dear
Friends ,
With
great interest , I read :
Old
cars retrofitted with electric kits is the
latest solution ?
Congratulations on this innovation
which will ,
#
Accelerate the switch-over to non-polluting electric vehicles
#
Give a new “ avatar “ to 1.1 million private 4 wheelers
#
Save assets worth lakhs of crore of rupees , which would , otherwise get
scrapped
It
was also very heartening to read about your efforts to come up with “ Solar Powered EV charging stations “
[
Solar
Power Based Charging Station ? ]
This
news report says :
For
100 km run ,
#
EV will cost only Rs 58
#
Petrol car will cost Rs 458
It
also reads ,
“
Retrofitting could cost around Rs 1.5 lakh – not counting for the
lithium-ion battery
Could
you please advise re the capacity of battery needed and its landed cost ?
For
over 2 years , in my emails to the Cabinet Ministers , I have been advocating “
Retrofitting of
Petrol cars “ , as you can find from :
Some 31 months back , in my blog / email ,
[ Piyush Plan ? / 27 March 2016 ]
I wrote :
# DISPOSAL
OF EXISTING VEHICLES ( 200 million + produced till 2030 )
* Enable /
encourage MSME units to carry out " Retro Fitting " of existing vehicles
Retiring Old Vehicles - Gadkari Style ? / 30 March 2016
Better Late than Never !
# Why scrap
entire vehicle ? Why not retrofit ?
· In
an OLD vehicle,
- only
“ Polluting Sub Assembly “ is the ENGINE
- other
“ Non-Polluting Sub Assemblies “ are :
Body – Chasis –
Transmission – Tyres etc
So , why SCRAP those
non-polluting parts ?
Why not just scrap the old
engine and retro-fit the vehicle with a brand NEW engine ( BS VI compliant
) ?
That will mean re-utilizing
some 80 % of the asset and , at the same time getting rid of the air pollution
!
With regards,
Hemen Parekh
www.hemenparekh.in / blogs
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