Of all the revolutions happening in India… mobile, 5G, ZBNF and EV the biggest success… or the biggest change… or the biggest tangible change could be brought about by this 1 product – VANDE BHARAT (VB) Trains.

What people have not comprehended is that the train is an Electric train… and being electric it is more powerful than diesel engine locomotive. It can pull & push much more.

This has recently been in the news regarding VB requiring no banker locomotives to push it up and down the ghat (hill) sections. This increases the productivity as no locomotives have to be kept spare for just the “banking or pushing” works.

This will reduce the waiting time and increase the turnaround time of the trains thereby making it very efficient.

Converting Diesel & Petrol cars to electric was a BIG failure on the side of the private companies both Indian and foreign. Except for Tata all other companies downright refused to convert their cars to electric citing excuses like “dog ate my homework.” … Some of them are still crying about Bharat VI emission standard.

All these companies could only do is make concept vehicles and blame government for lack of Infrastructure.

This shows that foreign companies do not necessarily favour development of a country… but they prefer the country to stay undeveloped so that they can exploit it more.

these MNC & even Indian companies prefer to make salt, potato chips, toothpaste, softdrinks, etc… anything than bring in development.

Thus it was left to the Government to bring in Electrification of the Entire Railway sector with trains like Vande Bharat Express (VBE)

VBE has set the fastest acceleration & deceleration record in India till date.

The good news is that…

in the near future the trains will not only the trains be Sleeper class trains (fit for longer distance & overnight travel) but will not require a drop of fuel to run.

Although it is powered from grid electricity (which is indirectly generated from crude oil) the grid… over a period of time… will be powered by the sun & the wind.

VBE will reduce India’s dependence on Diesel a lot... It could reduce India’s diesel requirement from the railways by 30% by year 2030.

This could accelerate at a very fast pace after 2030 and become 100% by year 2040.

Just imagine if the govt had sold the railways to private companies … then even in this sector there would have been no improvement or switch over to EVs at all. These private companies would have tried to make more and more profit from the population of India.

Specs of Vande Bharat Express:

Some of the companies connected with manufacturing Vande Bharat:

• Siemens
• BHEL
• Titagarh Wagons Ltd
• Kineco
• SAIL