This is a good piece of information for us and especially for the environmentalists. We see a bright future for hybrid cars in India.
The first reason is hybrid cars are going to cost less! Isn’t that great?
The Indian Government on Monday announced a proposed lower the import duty on car. Moreover, the Indian Government wants to encourage the use of environment-friendly vehicles and thus should lower import duty. Therefore, the prices of hybrid cars will certainly come down.
The Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Mr. Vilasrao Deshmukh, said that he has to convey this to the finance ministry. Hence, things like ‘how it should be done and how much’ are still on the process. The Minister feels that some concession is needed to be offered on hybrid models to encourage the adoption of eco-friendly vehicles.
At present, full hybrid technology is offered only by foreign automakers, but many of them are reluctant to bring in their vehicles as over 100 per cent import duty makes their prices prohibitive and difficult for a mass-scale adoption. We can cite Honda’s bad experience which had launched a hybrid version of its Civic sedan in India with near-double cost of the car (against a regular India-made petrol model). Honda suffered a poor demand for the hybrid version and this compelled the company to give a discount of as much as Rs 8 Lakh to clear the stocks.
Moreover, the Ministry of Environment and Forests announced to revise national ambient air quality standards. The revision came after 15 years and is in line with the latest advancement in technology and research and is at par with global best practices.
Although the standards are tighter now there is still an urgent need for controlling the increasing numbers and dieselization of car fleets. Diesel vehicles are known to be bigger polluters as they emit higher smoke, particles and Nitrogen Oxide (NOx).
In Delhi over 1000 new cars or personal vehicles hit the road every day. According to Society for Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM, market share of diesel cars is expected to be 50 percent of total car sales by 2010.
At this point, we can say that hybrid cars are coming to the rescue of the environment with their zero emission technology to keep the planet greener.Furthermore, all cars will carry fuel efficiency tags from 2011. This is another good news for the GenX who have a sense of duty towards Mother Earth.
The government has finally given the final touches to a notification setting fuel efficiency standards for the automobile sector. The norms will come into force in 2011 and the energy efficiency tags will be certified by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency.
At present, automakers voluntarily disclose fuel efficiency at the point of purchase, but the disclosure is optional. Once the notification is in place, revealing efficiency details will become mandatory.
All these steps taken by the Indian Government show a green light to hybrid cars coming to India!
The first reason is hybrid cars are going to cost less! Isn’t that great?
The Indian Government on Monday announced a proposed lower the import duty on car. Moreover, the Indian Government wants to encourage the use of environment-friendly vehicles and thus should lower import duty. Therefore, the prices of hybrid cars will certainly come down.
The Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Mr. Vilasrao Deshmukh, said that he has to convey this to the finance ministry. Hence, things like ‘how it should be done and how much’ are still on the process. The Minister feels that some concession is needed to be offered on hybrid models to encourage the adoption of eco-friendly vehicles.
At present, full hybrid technology is offered only by foreign automakers, but many of them are reluctant to bring in their vehicles as over 100 per cent import duty makes their prices prohibitive and difficult for a mass-scale adoption. We can cite Honda’s bad experience which had launched a hybrid version of its Civic sedan in India with near-double cost of the car (against a regular India-made petrol model). Honda suffered a poor demand for the hybrid version and this compelled the company to give a discount of as much as Rs 8 Lakh to clear the stocks.
Moreover, the Ministry of Environment and Forests announced to revise national ambient air quality standards. The revision came after 15 years and is in line with the latest advancement in technology and research and is at par with global best practices.
Although the standards are tighter now there is still an urgent need for controlling the increasing numbers and dieselization of car fleets. Diesel vehicles are known to be bigger polluters as they emit higher smoke, particles and Nitrogen Oxide (NOx).
In Delhi over 1000 new cars or personal vehicles hit the road every day. According to Society for Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM, market share of diesel cars is expected to be 50 percent of total car sales by 2010.
At this point, we can say that hybrid cars are coming to the rescue of the environment with their zero emission technology to keep the planet greener.Furthermore, all cars will carry fuel efficiency tags from 2011. This is another good news for the GenX who have a sense of duty towards Mother Earth.
The government has finally given the final touches to a notification setting fuel efficiency standards for the automobile sector. The norms will come into force in 2011 and the energy efficiency tags will be certified by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency.
At present, automakers voluntarily disclose fuel efficiency at the point of purchase, but the disclosure is optional. Once the notification is in place, revealing efficiency details will become mandatory.
All these steps taken by the Indian Government show a green light to hybrid cars coming to India!
Labels: Environment-Friendly-Vehicles, Fuel-Efficiency-Tag, Hybrid-Cars, SIAM
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