The World's Anatomy

Electric Vehicles (EVs) is the widely acknowledged and accepted future of mobility. It is ecologically and economically more viable than internal combustion engine vehicles. EVs can save 474 million tonnes of oil equivalent (Mtoe) worth Rs 15 lakh crore and generates carbon dioxide savings of 846 million tonnes over their operational lifetime. Battery Technology Lithium-ion batteries are most common due to high energy per unit mass, high power-to-weight ratio, good high temperature performance, low self-discharge, and most components are recyclable. Typically delivers a 320-480 km of range per charge. NiMH batteries has high specific energy, long life cycle, abuse tolerant but is disadvantaged with high cost, high self-discharge and heat generation at high temperature; 200 km of range. Led-acid batteries are inexpensive, safe and reliable but has low specific energy, poor cold temperature performance and short cycle life. Both NiMH and Lead-acid batt

Environment is deteriorating! Global warming is for real! Cities are turning into gas chambers! Several flora and fauna species are on the verge of extinction! Life expectancy is on a decline! The 21st century world is not oblivious to these human cries. So much so, that the international community was quick to recognize the environmental concerns back in 1997 to have set out de-carbonisation goals in the Kyoto Protocol. The urgency of the situation has again been highlighted, through the 2015 Paris Agreement, to intensify actions and investments to achieve sustainable low carbon future. Britain and Ireland have already declared climate emergency. Countries have set out Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), the key focus of which remains to be the transport sector worldwide. The rapid growth of urbanization, population, wealth and energy security concerns over the last few decades has brought about substantial transformations in the mobility services and busi

Having a significant global presence, India's automotive industry with the fifth largest transport demand has huge potential to contribute towards the changing global mobility landscape. Form going electric to inculcating practices of ride-sharing to transcending to autonomous driving, the industry is revolutionizing the meaning of mobility. In the process, it is aiming to achieving efficient land use, create new jobs, achieve self-sufficiency in generating energy for vehicles and substantially improve public health. Globally, countries like China are away ahead in its transition from Internal Combustion Engines (ICE) to battery operated electric vehicles. India is not far behind. NITI Aayog National Institution for Transforming India  envisages penetration of Electric Vehicles sales to 30% for passengers cars, 70% for commercial cars, 40% for buses and 80% for two- wheeler by 2030. However, India's automotive transition is happening in three-stages from ICE to hybrid v

"...Interestingly, the first electric vehicles were produced and sold at the beginning of the 1900's and sales peaked in the early 1910's. Bur technological developments and the discovery of large oil reserves displaced the electric vehicle in favor of the combustion engine. Now, almost 100 years later, electric vehicles are coming back and need to increasingly displace the combustion engine in favor of reducing emissions and air pollution..." The automotive industry has witnessed drastic transformations since its advent. From cattle-driven wooden carts to autonomous driving, efforts have been made to make mobility approachable and accessible by all. The sector has increasingly invested in realizing its mobility objectives that it has overlooked its mounting repercussions on global ecological system. Hence, in the past few decades the world attention has risen immensely to capitalize on cleaner and greener mobility solutions. E-vehicles are the future of m