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The Challenges

Transportation is amongst Weight reduction, easy to achieve, given that
the major cause of oil & gas aerodynamic body design, demand for increased
depletion, a key natural minimal component rust and comfort and safety contribute
resource. Additionally, deterioration have been at to a continuous increase
automotive sector is the centre of automobile in weight. Automotive
considered the largest engineering for decades. companies are thus
emitter of Greenhouse Gas Reducing a vehicle’s weight researching use of recovered
Emissions. Governments by 100 kgs decreases fuel materials, make components
and activists are therefore consumption by up to 0.5 with recyclable plastics and
pressing for increasingly liters per 100 kms. But reduce component corrosion.
fuel efficient vehicles. weight reduction is not

Government initiatives

Automotive companies challenged and struggling to battery packs, electric
have been asked to leapfrog leapfrog two levels in 4 years. traction motors and charging
technologies from Bharat infrastructure. Globally
India’s plans to move to
IV to Bharat VI by April 1, Lithium ion Batteris (LiBs)
2020. It took OEMs 9 years an “electric-vehicles only” cost about USD 250/kWh,
to upgrade one level from future, will mean increased making electric vehicles
BSIII to BS IV; they are now demand for lithium-ion expensive.

Government has
announced an
ambitious plan to
move completely to
Electric Vehicles by
2030

From
BSIV to BSVI in
4 Years

Indian automotive
companies to leapfrog
technologies

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In Pursuit of Sustainable Development