Thats personal vehicles. But if China is going full speed with electric trucks, that will be the fastest gamechanger. Diesel trucks run 300K miles, under 5mpg, consume a gazillion gallons. Electric truck fuel costs are probably 10%.
replyIts really sad that India is pro fossil fuel, it has an opportunity to follow China's strategy.
India is literally following China's "anything but oil and gas", which encourages renewables, nuclear and coal.
replyIn fact, the Chinese coal lobby is partially responsible for the push for electric trucks. The alternatives are diesel and LNG - both competitors to coal.
India is pro-coal (has local sources), but anti-oil (import dependence). It is only pro-coal because there's no other alternatives at cost/scale for baseload generation.
replyYou will find Chinese electric trucks making inroads (heh) everywhere from UK and Europe (1) to Africa (2)
replynow that it's a proven business model in the centre of the these things, of course.
1) https://octopus.energy/big-on-batteries-octopus-and-catl-tea...
2) https://mybroadband.co.za/news/motoring/648661-electric-truc...
I don’t know what you mean by India is pro fossil fuel. It’s aggressively building out solar and has multiple nuclear reactors being simultaneously constructed. It would love to be an electrostate but is doing everything it can to satisfy its populations energy needs in the meantime which means they can’t just stop using coal and oil.
replyThose numbers are from before Mr Trump decided to do his very best to convince the world to stop using oil. Which happened to coincide beautifully with VW group, Stellantis and Chinese firms having an all out price war on smaller EVs, which have until now been the underserved segment of the market. In Denmark it’s certainly not 36%, its probably closer to 90% of new cars being EVs, it’s simply financial suicide to buy a new ICE car here.
reply> it’s simply financial suicide to buy a new ICE car here
replyThat's a result of tax policy much more than the fundamental economics of ICE vs EV. Petrol is highly taxed. ICE cars are highly taxed. EV cars are probably exempted, or at least taxed less.
Wow. On mobile Firefox I have to use two fingers to scroll that site.
replyYeah, that's some cursed JavaScript :-/
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