Automaker Mahindra & Mahindra plans to ramp up production of its electric vehicles to 5,000 units a month by mid-2019 from 400 units currently… and will invest in making batteries that enable cars to run for 400 kilometres on a single charge, managing director Pawan Goenka said.

(We at PIC (PlugInCaroo) feel that 200kms for a car is the right balance of range, charging-time & price. On the other hand to charge a 400km car would take about 18 hrs which is just Crazy Crazy Crazy idea and of course almost double the price of the vehicle).

Mahindra seems to have sold only 2,700 vehicles since, including the e2o small car and eVerito sedan (eVerito was never offered for sales in the first place only offered to some taxi company on a pilot project).

It is also planning an electric 3 wheeler to be released in August 2017, a 32 seater bus and an SUV in a couple of years.

This has come amidst the news that M&M exited from Britan. This exit makes perfect sense and it was excellent by M&M to make this quick decision because M&M was eying the Europe Market and not the tiny UK market.  Britan exiting the Euro was a huge  setback to Mahindra.

Mahindra finally seems to have decided for good that EVs are feasible in India… and India is going to be their focal market. Rise Mahindra Rise… and meet the challenge of EVs in India.

Welcome back Chetan… India needs you…

Version 1.0 was the man who gave the World its first popular electric car, the G-Wiz. He is BACK… he is now looking to make batteries & to make charging  more affordable in India.

Maini’s new venture Virya Mobility 5.0 is looking to build modular batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) that can be swapped out quickly at stations similar to today’s petrol bunks. The company’s battery as a service model could help reduce the initial cost of buying EVs by as much as 50 per cent.

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Rainwater is more important than gold or Oil. Yet we let it run into gutters and sewers.Every day you see… desperate calls to save TAP water, Calls like

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First nail just sank into the coffin of Petrol & Diesel cars – Beginning 14 May, petrol pumps in eight states will be closed on Sundays following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to conserve oil, a fuel pump owners’ body said in Chennai on Tuesday.

There are people still in disbelief that Government cannot ban Petrol & Diesel vehicles. Well they might not exactly ban these vehicles but they will start making life more difficult for owners of these vehicles… things like this will escalate pretty soon in the next 8 years till a complete ban is imposed by 2025.

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