Prius not for India?!
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Welcome Prius!
I agree that India and China have significant coal resources and would depend on coal to generate power for next several years. But it is still a good idea to use Electric/Hybrid vehicles since
* When power is being produced centrally (powerplant) it is much easier to employ efficient methods and pollution control. For example, an automobile's efficiency is about 30% while that of a combined cycle powerplant can go till 60%.
* Even with coal, you can employ less-pollution methods (like IGCC) and use coal effectively.
* Hybrids are supposedly very efficient when compared to petrol/diesel vehicles because they burn fuel only for a fration of time and use 'stored' energy. This reduces the emissions during idling and cruising. I presume they also recover breaking energy (not sure they do) which makes them even more efficient.
So my take, bring them on!!
-Shastri
-Shastri
Prius in India, Absolutely
Hybrids..way to go!
hybrids are here?
Mileage is almost the same
size and cost
size and cost
too costly..