How to strengthen India's position in changing technologies
How to strengthen India's position in changing technologies?
Every new technology lowers production costs. This is the reason why those countries who adopt it so quickly, they stays more in profit. However, developing countries can not change plans at the pace at which technology is changing.
For example, in India, CNG vehicles were introduced in the market two and a half decades ago to replace petrol diesel vehicles. The rationale was that this would reduce pollution and save import costs of expensive petrol - diesel. Car engines were made accordingly.
Meanwhile, the government asked the automobile industry to modify the engine to mix ethanol in petrol. The government claimed that after a few years all two-wheeler vehicles would use only ethanol instead of petrol. After that, new ethanol producing factories started opening all over the country, sugar mills started making ethanol.
Ethanol production increased from 38 million liters to 450 million liters in the last 8 years. It is planned to be 1016 million liters by the year 2025. But transporting this much ethanol by road to the blending center is a new problem. As it requires 3.5 lakh additional tankers and will run on diesel, this will result in 76 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions.
Now the electric vehicle started to be considered. However, the scientist announced that hydrogen-powered cars were commercially viable and now India's planners are starting to formulate policies for this ultra-cheap and pollution-free technology for transport. Leave diesel - petrol cars, what will happen to ethanol factories, where will electric vehicles go?
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