ABB to Electrically Transform India's Bus Transport System by 2030
Published On Oct 27, 2016
ABB has envisaged to make India into a complete electric vehicle nation by 2030. Sanjeev Sharma, Managing Director, ABB India had recently confirmed about Union Government’s nod to his request regarding the trial of flash charging electric buses technology in India on a pilot basis.
Nitin Gadkari, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari had also cleared his intentions of converting 1.5 lakh diesel buses into electric buses. India, apart from pollution caused by burning diesel and petrol, also pays around INR 8 lakh crore just to fulfil its crude oil needs.
The need of adding flash electric charge points in various bus stations was identified in The National Mission Plan 2020. But as the cost involved was almost five times the cost of normal charging points, the decision to conduct a pilot trial was taken.
The same technology has already been adopted in Geneva. This first and new flash charging technology has the ability of fully charging a bus in less than six minutes of time. The technology takes advantage of the time gap between boarding and de-boarding. A normal two minute stop can help the driver charge the bus for next two kilometres. Once functional the emissions cut will result in saving thousands of tons of carbon footprint caused due to pollution.
Mr Nitin Gadkari had also mentioned that introduction of electric buses may also result in less costly bus tickets. He had mentioned that buses can be charged during the night as electricity charges drop to as low as INR 3.5/unit at that time and hence result in less costing tickets.
