Electric Vehicles

India has set itself an ambitious and rather stiff target of completely changing over to all electric fleet by 2030. In fact Rameswaram Island can also think on similar lines. But most important and pertinent question is “Where is the electricity going to come for charging the batteries”. And what batteries we are going to use? If it is the conventional Lead Acid type, the recycling and recovery of lead is going to be a key issue to be addressed. Is Lithium Ion batteries are more environmentally friendly? Such questions need to be asked before deciding on deployment of EV in large scale.

The Lead in conventional batteries and Cobalt in Li Ion batteries pose problems for the environments. The chemistry of more Eco-friendly Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) is much more attractive in this respect

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