It is with a very heavy heart we have to inform that Gajanan Agrawal of Cow Grazing passed away some 7 months (Feb 2021) ago apparently in a road accident. (There is not much information available about it on the internet).
I got this sad news from the comments on his YouTube Channel.
It seems the last task given to him by the divine had been to collect huge volume of information regarding to Cow care and how beautifully he had done it. He traveled the length and breath of India to collect it as if in a hurry.
He recorded so much stories that he did not…
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TVS Automobile-backed Ultraviolette Automotive, an electric motorcycle manufacturing start-up, has announced that it is setting up its first manufacturing and assembly facility near Electronic City in Bangalore.
Production of its electric motorcycle – the F77 – is said to begin in 2022 and the first batch of motorcycles are scheduled to enter the market in March, 2022. It may be recollected that the company had first showcased the pre-production version of the F77 in November 2019.
Ultraviolette says its manufacturing facility spread over 70,000 square feet will manufacture 15,000 electric motorcycles in the first year, and then rapidly scale up to an annual capacity of 1,20,000 units. This will generate employment for over 500 employees, who will be trained on electric vehicle manufacturing and assembly over the next five years.
Read the full article here: https://www.autocarindia.com/bike-news/ultraviolette-f77-launch-scheduled-for-march-2022-421989
Ultraviolette Website: https://www.ultraviolette.com/f77.html
LML (Lohia Machines LTD) is planning to re-enter the electric 2Wheeler sector.
Now LML is a defunct Indian scooter and motorcycle manufacturer formerly based in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
It was founded in 1972 and in 48 short years it had closed down twice!
LML had issued a notice of insolvency on 2 June 2017.
As of August 2020, the factory had been dismantled completely, spares, machines and scooters scrapped, toolings partly sold to SIP scooter shop of Germany.
Unbelievably they are back again … this time with an Electric Scooter!!!
Electric vehicles are becoming a lot more common in the country. Even though electric vehicles are becoming popular one of the main concern or issue the most of the electric vehicle owners have is the charging stations. In a recent incident an electric scooter owner was denied permission to install a charging station in the parking area in Bengaluru, Karnataka. As a protest, the owner loaded his Ather electric scooter in the elevator and charged it in his apartment in fifth floor.
The owner of the Ather electric scooter, Vish Ganti, Vice President of Product Management & GM AutoGrid India wrote on LinkedIn about this incident. The post says, “You might have heard about Desi “Jugaad” but here is something I had to pull off today. Honestly never thought a day like this would come….
Continue readingFAME2 is ICECREAM (incentive) given by Govt to idiot Industrialists of India (most of whom are sitting on their Grandfather’s British Era business empire) to move from ICE to Electric… NOTHING ELSE.
These industrialists also try to prevent other new businesses from growing bigger than them…ask Dhirubhai Ambani who had to face a lot of their attitude.
Common People are under wrong impression that Subsidy is for them. Nobody said it is for the people. Why a respectable govt of a country has to do it? No Idea!!!
Most of these big industrialists have denounced Indian citizenship and hold dual citizenship/passports. (Western countries like UK, US, Can, Aus, etc encourage and allow such people to have dual citizenships/passports) These guys also study, live & enjoy privileges of those countries but use India as a milking cow to live their flashy lifestyle.
One example is Sidhartha Lal of Eicher Motors or Enfield has parked himself in UK since 2015 and operates from there… trying to push “premium” Enfield Bullet in western countries… when the biggest missile called “Electric-2Wheelers” have launched in India and has Enfield Bullet in its crosshair.
*How ANYBODY can SAVE Enfield Bullet from going down?*
Most of these ICE companies have always been “importers” & “importing agents” from the very beginning/incorporation & they just assemble stuff here under their brand name.
Earlier during ICE era it was difficult for companies to enter automobile sectors because it required massive investment, floor-space and manpower. Today in EV era it is much easier. EV business is carried out in a completely different ways which were unimaginable in ICE era.
Some of them already know that they are ill-equipped to deal with this inevitable EV-Tsunami. All of them know it will hit them some time or the other.
Most of them think that they have a platform ready for EV business or invest in new EV startups to prevent it from succeeding.
They are like the dadas or gundas… you either give them a share in the profits or they will try to stop you.
Sorry Sir! The wind is just picking up and your clothes are already flying in the wind…
We are yet to see the full scale of the Tsunami… just like the Tsunami it will be quick… there will not be time to even launch that EV Project hidden in their basement…
There will not be any FOREIGN players to help these industrialists this time.
Usually these companies collaborate with a foreign makers to launch their vehicle in India. With EV there will be no such help because the biggest movers & shakers are the new Indian EV Companies. Western companies due to their Petro-Dollar politics are not too keen on EVs. That’s why Elon Musk is not on the friends list of US Presidents.
*The foreign players themselves have no plan for an EV in the long run and WHATEVER they have is VERY EXPENSIVE for Indian markets.* So most of these ICE makers are caught between the devil & the deep sea.
Tata Motors seem to be the only exception because of the development of NexonEV & the excellent support given for NexonEV buyers.
NexonEV was a fluke… stroke of luck… because most EV-makers prefer to make smaller vehicles so it never sold in India.
We at PlugInCaroo… had brought this to light many times before on our blog that making small cars like E2O make no sense if EVs are to be adopted by Indians.
In India the EV car has to be a 7 seat-er so that the whole family can travel in it. NexonEV with 5 spacious seats is the 2nd best.
The the 306km range Tigor is a vehicle aimed purely at the Uber/Ola market.. either to be driven by the driver or by the Uber car owner.
TigorEV will get much lesser response than NexonEV because it will be avoided by BOTH SECTIONS of the society….the personal car & the taxi car sections.
The Personal Car buyer category will avoid TigorEV and buy NexonEV because the difference is small and the look and feel is better.
The Uber/Ola drivers prefer diesel cars (rather than CNG or Electric Cars) because they can travel longer distances (eg Mumbai-Pune or Mumbai-Nashik) which gives them the best profitability. Longer the distance more is their profitability because their “down-time” (time with no customer) is less & they can refuel countrywide.
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Collaborating with a Tesla or a BMW or a Volkswagon will not save Indian ICE 2wheeler or car makers!!!
Most of them will lose their biggest empire… ICE business… with the advent of EVs … This is just a start… soon Xiaomi or NVIDIA will come with Electric Car.
Another 100 new companies will follow Xiaomi… it will be just like the smartphone market with so many brands that we will not be able to even recall the brand…
How many will they stop? and how many Icecreams can the Govt give?
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