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 :
https://www.pressreader.com/
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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