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There are some things that should start making make sense to the global policy makers once the market dynamics comes into play.If it does not they get driven out of the market. Electric powered 2 wheelers is one such thing. So with half a dozen IIT Roorkee students we have just began a Knowledge Sharing Platform that collects and shares information on Electric bikes and Electric 2 wheelers. It is a KSP that will ultimately share all information about the Electric 2 wheelers and benefit the users, the manufacturers and the policy makers to take up commercially prudent decisions for sustainable living
I also wrote an post for the policy page in Economic Times India's best lnown business paper a fortnight ago that goes to explain how electric bikes will score the first victory in the battle between unconventional energy and fossil fuels in popularity and market share.... the war remains to be won
Electric bikes: China’s development of a low-cost, efficient energy solution holds a lesson for India
In a little over a decade, it would have bridged the 125-year lead that internal combustion engine (ICE) two-wheelers running on petrol have had in the market. The industry growth chart for the past decade tells the story. India is still to be a part of the phenomenal growth story scripted by China almost single-handedly.
In 1998, China commenced mass-producing electric bikes indigenously with 56,000 units made by a dozen producers. The world that year produced 42 million motorbikes, almost all fuelled by fossil fuels. By 2010, China had 2,000-odd manufacturers producing 30 million units a year to feed a rapidly-growing annual global market of $12 billion.
Unlike other export-oriented industries, China consumes 80% of its own production. It has over 150 million electric two-wheelers on the road while Europe, with 18 million units, comes a distant second. India, with 2,00,000 vehicles produced, is low down on the list. Hero Motors, Bajaj Auto, Lohia Machines and TVS, all big global two-wheeler brands, have missed a trick.
Sustainable Solution
In 2010, the world produced 60 million motorbikes that ran on fossil fuel and 32 million electric and hybrid two-wheelers. With a near average yearly growth of 20%, electric-powered units will close the gap by 2015, both producing 70 million units individually.
The world's five largest motorcycle markets are China, India, Indonesia, Brazil and Vietnam, which together have three billion people who need low-cost, eco-friendly vehicles for daily commutes that do not guzzle expensive fossil fuels. Other emerging economies will soon latch on to the China growth story. Also, it is only a matter of time before solar batterries replace lead-acid, lanthanum and lithium ion ones.
"In China, electric bicycles have a moderating influence on the use of cars," confirmed advocacy group The Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities to The New York Times. As a result, there are five times more electric bikes on China's roads than cars.
Most of these are low-powered units of 200 watts fitted with reusable lead acid batteries, typically costing RMB 2,400 yuan (less than $400), the average monthly pay of a Chinese worker. They are no-frills utility vehicles chugging steadily at 20 km an hour.
The workforce typically travels 50 km a day on single charge usually from home to workplace, and are said to save 150 million worker hours each day. By contrast, the US bike market is 82% for recreation with low average bike runs of 1,000 miles per year, against 12,000 miles per year driven by the American car user.
China's 863 Programme .
.... For more read
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-02-09/news/31041867_1_electric-bikes-electric-bicycles-electric-two-wheelers
There are some things that should start making make sense to the global policy makers once the market dynamics comes into play.If it does not they get driven out of the market. Electric powered 2 wheelers is one such thing. So with half a dozen IIT Roorkee students we have just began a Knowledge Sharing Platform that collects and shares information on Electric bikes and Electric 2 wheelers. It is a KSP that will ultimately share all information about the Electric 2 wheelers and benefit the users, the manufacturers and the policy makers to take up commercially prudent decisions for sustainable living
I also wrote an post for the policy page in Economic Times India's best lnown business paper a fortnight ago that goes to explain how electric bikes will score the first victory in the battle between unconventional energy and fossil fuels in popularity and market share.... the war remains to be won
Electric bikes: China’s development of a low-cost, efficient energy solution holds a lesson for India
In a little over a decade, it would have bridged the 125-year lead that internal combustion engine (ICE) two-wheelers running on petrol have had in the market. The industry growth chart for the past decade tells the story. India is still to be a part of the phenomenal growth story scripted by China almost single-handedly.
In 1998, China commenced mass-producing electric bikes indigenously with 56,000 units made by a dozen producers. The world that year produced 42 million motorbikes, almost all fuelled by fossil fuels. By 2010, China had 2,000-odd manufacturers producing 30 million units a year to feed a rapidly-growing annual global market of $12 billion.
Unlike other export-oriented industries, China consumes 80% of its own production. It has over 150 million electric two-wheelers on the road while Europe, with 18 million units, comes a distant second. India, with 2,00,000 vehicles produced, is low down on the list. Hero Motors, Bajaj Auto, Lohia Machines and TVS, all big global two-wheeler brands, have missed a trick.
Sustainable Solution
In 2010, the world produced 60 million motorbikes that ran on fossil fuel and 32 million electric and hybrid two-wheelers. With a near average yearly growth of 20%, electric-powered units will close the gap by 2015, both producing 70 million units individually.
The world's five largest motorcycle markets are China, India, Indonesia, Brazil and Vietnam, which together have three billion people who need low-cost, eco-friendly vehicles for daily commutes that do not guzzle expensive fossil fuels. Other emerging economies will soon latch on to the China growth story. Also, it is only a matter of time before solar batterries replace lead-acid, lanthanum and lithium ion ones.
"In China, electric bicycles have a moderating influence on the use of cars," confirmed advocacy group The Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities to The New York Times. As a result, there are five times more electric bikes on China's roads than cars.
Most of these are low-powered units of 200 watts fitted with reusable lead acid batteries, typically costing RMB 2,400 yuan (less than $400), the average monthly pay of a Chinese worker. They are no-frills utility vehicles chugging steadily at 20 km an hour.
The workforce typically travels 50 km a day on single charge usually from home to workplace, and are said to save 150 million worker hours each day. By contrast, the US bike market is 82% for recreation with low average bike runs of 1,000 miles per year, against 12,000 miles per year driven by the American car user.
China's 863 Programme .
.... For more read
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-02-09/news/31041867_1_electric-bikes-electric-bicycles-electric-two-wheelers
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