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Re:India plans massive shift to electric cars by pdog on Sunday May 14, 2017 @12:42PM (#14336300)
Makes sense. India has just 32 vehicles for every 1,000 people (compared to the 800 vehicles per 1,000 people in the United States and 140 vehicles per 1,000 people in China)[1].

If you're going to mobilize 1 billion people, you may as well "leapfrog" the internal combustion engine and move straight to electric vehicles.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_...

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Re:India plans massive shift to electric cars by kumarm on Sunday May 14, 2017 @02:01PM (#14336691)
What India needs is better public and mass transport and not improved vehicles/1000 people.

India has 4 times the population of US and 1/4 the area of US (approximately). If you consider those facts India nearly has way too many vehicles/square mile (considering 2 wheeler and 3 wheelers that run on gas).

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Re:India plans massive shift to electric cars by sreenadh on Monday May 15, 2017 @07:39AM (#14340792)
I believe that India has to leapfrog the whole car obsession and move over to an effective and extensive public transportation and make cities more “superblocks" like in Barcelona (https://youtu.be/ZORzsubQA_M).

Adam ruins Cars (http://www.trutv.com/shows/adam-ruins-everything/blog/adams-...) is a rather informative piece you should watch.

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Re:India plans massive shift to electric cars by awkwardtortoise on Monday May 15, 2017 @02:42PM (#14343995)
The problem is that india gets most of its electricity from coal (59.1%).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_India

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