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Thats personal vehicles. But if China is going full speed with electric trucks, that will be the fastest gamechanger. Diesel trucks run 300K miles, under 5mpg, consume a gazillion gallons. Electric truck fuel costs are probably 10%.

Its really sad that India is pro fossil fuel, it has an opportunity to follow China's strategy.

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You will find Chinese electric trucks making inroads (heh) everywhere from UK and Europe (1) to Africa (2)

now that it's a proven business model in the centre of the these things, of course.

1) https://octopus.energy/big-on-batteries-octopus-and-catl-tea...

2) https://mybroadband.co.za/news/motoring/648661-electric-truc...

India is pro-coal (has local sources), but anti-oil (import dependence). It is only pro-coal because there's no other alternatives at cost/scale for baseload generation.

India is literally following China's "anything but oil and gas", which encourages renewables, nuclear and coal.

In fact, the Chinese coal lobby is partially responsible for the push for electric trucks. The alternatives are diesel and LNG - both competitors to coal.

I don’t know what you mean by India is pro fossil fuel. It’s aggressively building out solar and has multiple nuclear reactors being simultaneously constructed. It would love to be an electrostate but is doing everything it can to satisfy its populations energy needs in the meantime which means they can’t just stop using coal and oil.

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