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Electric Vehicles on Delhi Roads

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Number of Electric Vehicles on Delhi Roads is increasing day by day. These days people prefer buying electric cars and scooters. A lot of people also buy expensive electric vehicles (EVs)  like Porsche Taycan or Audi e-tron GT.

Here are a few photos of Electric Vehicles on Delhi Roads. Scroll down for the pros and cons of EVs.

Pros:

1: EVs make little noise, hence, there is a reduction in noise pollution in our environment.

2: There is a reduction in the carbon foot print (during production the carbon footprint of EVs is higher than Internal Combustion Engine vehicles but over their entire lifecycle EVs have a lower carbon footprint). They can contribute to a reduction in the pollution levels in Delhi.

Cons:

1: An EV is almost silent which makes it hard for people on the road to be aware of it and this may cause an accident.

2: The range of driving distance of an EV is lower than that of an Internal Combustion Engine vehicle though this gap is reducing.

Conclusion: EVs are better for the environment even though they have a few downsides.

Here is the link to an earlier post about the pollution levels in Delhi: Delhi Pollution is Choking – OK TATA

Delhi Pollution Level

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With Odd Even implementation for vehicles in Delhi around the corner it is time to say OKTATA to pollution as far as possible. Delhi pollution levels are high all through the year and in the winters it witnesses a spike in these. The air is quite bad to breathe and can cause several diseases.

Numerous questions have been posed. Many solutions have been proposed to bring Delhi pollution level under control.

Hopefully this step will help. If not, it is on a trial basis for 15 days and might be withdrawn.

I’m going to set up a Car Pool solution on this site soon.

Wonder if the below suggestions would help curb pollution?

1. Should diesel vehicles be completely banned?

Should diesel car owners be provided tax subsidy on purchase of CNG vehicles & assured fair market value for their diesel cars? Or, should diesel car be fitted with petrol engines which are then run on CNG? (if that is possible). In old days there used to be advertisements on TV to replace Petrol engines with Diesel engines for cost efficiency. Is vice versa possible now?

2. Should SUV sales be completely banned?

3. What is the contribution of the Metro construction on Ring Road and other stretches to the current pollution levels in Delhi? If that is significant should it be halted and work carried out in phases on particular stretches? Initial Metro construction had been in phases.

4. Would it be possible to have the Ring Rail service augmented and brought under the aegis of the Delhi Metro? Would there still be a need for the construction of the Metro line on Ring Road?

5. Are trams really not meant for big cities? Those might be slow but surely are easier to implement?

6. Maybe we need more buses (CNG?) than the Metro?

7. What is the contribution to pollution of the construction of the elevated stretches on Outer Ring Road? Read in the newspaper recently that more elevated roads are planned. What will be the impact on pollution?