Demonstration of new tech for e-vehicles begins
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, January 09 2018:
Experimental demonstration of a new technology which would power outdated petrol or diesel motor vehicles with electricity has begun.
The technology was invented by a team of scientists of the Indian Institute of Petroleum which is a constituent laboratory of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Speaking to media persons at Manipur Press Club here today, CSIR Dehradun Senior Scientist Robindro Lairenlakpam said that the new technology would convert all outdated petrol/diesel motor vehicles which emit a lot of smoke into electricity-powered vehicles.
A team of scientists has been working on the new technology since two/three years back under the National Electric Mobility Mission Plan 2020 and they have now started experimental demonstration of the technology, Robindro said.
The new technology would be first experimented with some vehicles plying on Dehradun roads, he said.
The National Electric Mobility Mission Plan 2020 launched at the initiative of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is aimed at introducing 6/7 million e-vehicles by 2020 across the country and at the same time save 1.2 to 1.5 million tonnes of fuel.
Notably, Robindro Lairenlakpam is a key member of the team of scientists who have been working on the new technology.
Of the total quantity of fuel used in the country, around 80 per cent are imported from foreign countries in the form of crude oil.
The mission was conceptualised with a target of reducing the crude oil import by at least 10 per cent.
On the other hand, there is no concrete policy in India for converting old and unusable vehicles into scraps and recycle them.
E-vehicles are now available at markets but they are very costly.
An e-vehicle of Mahindra and Mahindra is priced over Rs 6 lakh.
But application of the new technology to any vehicle currently in service would require just Rs 1.20 lakh to Rs 1.50 lakh, Robindro said.
A kit consisting of a 48 V-100 ah lithium battery, an electric motor and a controller would be fixed to a vehicle.
A fully charged battery can last for 30 Kms and such e-vehicle can gain top speed of 42 kmph.
"We are working to further improve the battery so that it lasts for 100 Kms after it is fully charged", Robindro said.
The e-vehicles once introduced in mass scale would certainly reduce air pollution as well as noise pollution to a significant level, he added.