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PluginIndia is India's oldest electric vehicle advocacy group. They promote Electric Vehicles and Clean energy in India. They work with the EV industry and local businesses to bring about change. Their aim is to accelerate the shift to plug-in vehicles powered by clean, affordable, domestic electricity to reduce their country's dependence on imported oil and thus improve the global..
PluginIndia Blog
1y ago
By Kamlesh Mallick & Karthikeyan Palanisamy
Tata Motors continues to have no competition with electric cars at the start of 2023. For Tata Motors, 14% of their passenger car sales is already fully electric!
The Indian electric car market noted a 276% year-over-year increase in April, mostly due to the electric car offerings by Tata Motors.
Roughly 8,446 new electric cars were registered in India last month as per data available from the Vahan portal and press statements from Tata Motors.
Electric cars account ..read more
PluginIndia Blog
1y ago
By Kamlesh & Karthikeyan Palanisamy
Electric Two Wheeler Sales increased by 25% in April 2023. The EV 2-wheelers accounted for 5.5% of the overall two wheeler sales in March nation wide.
However cities like Bengaluru and Pune are close to 18%
The Indian electric two wheeler market noted a significant 25% year-over-year increase in April, mostly due increased public awareness and incredible choice for consumers in all segments.
For the month of April, 66,529 new electric scooters and motorcycles were registered in ..read more
PluginIndia Blog
2y ago
By Kamlesh & Karthikeyan Palanisamy
Electric Two Wheeler Sales increased by 58% in March 2023. The EV 2-wheelers accounted for 6.74% of the overall two wheeler sales in March nation wide.
However cities like Bengaluru and Pune are close to 20%
The Indian electric two wheeler market noted a significant 58% year-over-year increase in March, mostly due increased public awareness and incredible choice for consumers in all segments.
For the month of March, 85,890 new electric scooters and motorcycles were register ..read more
PluginIndia Blog
2y ago
By Kamlesh
The OLA Electric team sent engineers from the Pune service center to change the front fork on my S1 Pro electric scooter. In this blog, i share some observations on the upgrade process.
The OLA Electric team sent engineers from the Pune Service Center to change the front fork on my S1 Pro.
I was the 3rd owner to get the shocker changed in Pune, so thanks to the OLA electric team for doing this. So I thought I would share the experience and also give you my thoughts on this.
After getting a call from someone at OLA electric, the engineers arrived at my home location a ..read more
PluginIndia Blog
2y ago
Team PluginIndia
The Lithium mining FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) created by some paid media organizations and random YouTube channels is so bad, that many people read headlines of such articles and assume that Lithium mining is the worst thing in the world and is worse than extracting and refining 10,000 liters of oil used by an average ICE car.
In this article, we will document some important facts that debunk this narrative with facts and sources.
Lithium is extracted from salt-pans, or solar evaporation ponds in South America. Lithium is also mined from hard rock ..read more
PluginIndia Blog
2y ago
Team PluginIndia
Even in 2023, we keep getting comments like these - '‘Electric cars use electricity which is generated by burning coal. They are worse than petrol cars."
Either people who make such statements are misguided or they are EV FUD creators. In this article, we will document some important facts that debunk this statement with facts and sources.
There are lots of auto 'journalists' and random YouTubers who still talk about electric cars and coal power. It's hard to believe at this stage of the game, in 2023, anyone still believes that old red herring - about coal and electric ..read more
PluginIndia Blog
2y ago
By Kamlesh Mallick & Karthikeyan Palanisamy
Tata Motors continues to have no competition with electric cars at the start of 2023. When will other car OEM's catch up?
The Indian electric car market noted a 150% year-over-year increase in February, mostly due to the electric car offerings by Tata Motors.
Roughly 6,115 new electric cars were registered in India last month as per data available from the Vahan portal and press statements from Tata Motors.
Electric cars accounted for about 2.1% of the total car sales in India so fa ..read more
PluginIndia Blog
2y ago
By Kamlesh & Karthikeyan Palanisamy
Electric Two Wheeler Sales increased by 84% in February 2023. Demand for EV's are shooting up!
The Indian electric two wheeler market noted a significant 84% year-over-year increase in February, mostly due increased public awareness and incredible choice for consumers in all segments.
For the month of February, 65,796 new electric scooters and motorcycles were registered in India as per data available from the Vahan portal
In February about 12,68,848 new two wheelers ware sold, ou ..read more
PluginIndia Blog
2y ago
By Team PluginIndia
Now that Electric Vehicles are an increasingly attractive and attainable option for personal vehicle buyers, governments around the world have issued various petrol vehicle bans which will be implemented over the coming years. These kinds of bans have attracted criticism from auto 'journalists' and legacy vehicle manufacturers who rely on ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) sales which are already faltering tremendously.
Is their criticism warranted? Absolutely not.
Here are countries that have announced ICE Car bans
Norway - 2025
South Korea - 2025
Belgium - 202 ..read more
PluginIndia Blog
2y ago
Guest Post
EV Community Member,
Chetan Kale
Tata Nexon EV Max owner Chetan Kale, sent us this blog on his 10,000 km ownership review.
I wrote about my first long-distance EV road trip back in November 2022. It was a unique experience filled with excitement and anxiety. It made me think hard about the challenges of owning and driving an electric vehicle over long distances.
I have now driven my EV for a total of 10,000 km within the state of Maharashtra, a combination of city drives and out-of-station drives. I have even made multiple trips on the same route I wrote about for the first ..read more