#electric vehicle subsidy

[electricparivahan]

राजस्थान में ईवी कस्टमर को नहीं मिल रही सब्सिडी, अधिकारियो ने बताया कारण

इलेक्ट्रिक व्हीकल पर राजस्थान में स्टेट सब्सिडी के बावजूद अभी तक हजारों कस्टमर अपने इलेक्ट्रिक व्हीकल के लिए सब्सिडी के इंतजार में हैं। रिपोर्ट की माने तो लगभग 50,000 हजार इलेक्ट्रिक व्हीकल ओवनर को अपने इलेक्ट्रिक व्हीकल पर सब्सिडी नहीं मिली है, और इसमें इलेक्ट्रिक स्कूटर, इलेक्ट्रिक बाइक, इलेक्ट्रिक थ्रीव्हीलर और इलेक्ट्रिक कार के साथ साथ इलेक्ट्रिक बसें भी शामिल…

[binimom]

US EV market

Revitalization of the electric vehicle market in the US🚗

The US electric vehicle market continues to develop and grow rapidly, attracting people's attention. Several factors, including increased awareness of the importance of environmental protection, improved EV performance, and rising fuel prices, are driving the growth of the US EV market. In addition, with the development of electric vehicle technology, the establishment of electric vehicle charging infrastructure is rapidly progressing, raising consumers' willingness to purchase electric vehicles.

EV subsidies supported by the US🔋

Electric vehicle subsidies are an important policy instrument to promote the purchase of electric vehicles by consumers. The US government is operating various subsidy programs to provide a competitive edge to companies actively participating in the electric vehicle market. These subsidies vary by vehicle type and can be up to $7,500. However, subsidy support may be limited or suspended for expensive electric vehicles over a certain price.

Electric cars in the US are expected to continue to grow, and subsidies are likely to act as a factor in promoting market growth! 💡

[evaahan]

FAME 2 Subsidy (फेम 2 सब्सिडी)

भारत सरकार ने देश में इलेक्ट्रिक मोबिलिटी को बढ़ावा देने के लिए “फास्टर एडॉप्शन एंड मैन्युफैक्चरिंग ऑफ इलेक्ट्रिक व्हीकल्स” (FAME 2) योजना शुरू की है। FAME 2 subsidy योजना को अब मार्च 2024 तक बढ़ा दिया गया है। फेम टू सब्सिडी क्या है? (What is fame II subsidy?) FAME 2 (फास्टर एडॉप्शन एंड मैन्युफैक्चरिंग ऑफ (हाइब्रिड एंड) इलेक्ट्रिक व्हीकल्स) भारत सरकार द्वारा देश में इलेक्ट्रिक वाहनों (EVs) के…

[bahubalie-rickshaw]

E Rickshaw Loader: Affordable and Efficient Solutions

Looking for an eco-friendly and cost-effective transportation solution? The e rickshaw loader is the answer. These versatile vehicles have revolutionized urban logistics with their affordability and efficiency. Understanding the e rickshaw loader price is crucial for businesses and individuals seeking to invest in this sustainable technology.

The e rickshaw loader price varies depending on several factors, including the features and battery capacity. Basic models are more affordable, while premium versions with extended battery life and advanced features might cost more. Despite the initial investment, the low running and maintenance costs make e rickshaw loaders a smart choice.

Additionally, government incentives and subsidies for electric vehicles can significantly reduce the e rickshaw loader price, making them even more accessible. These incentives aim to promote green transportation and reduce urban pollution, aligning with global sustainability goals.

Investing in an e rickshaw loader not only supports environmental conservation but also offers practical benefits like reduced fuel costs and lower maintenance expenses. As cities continue to embrace green technology, the demand for e rickshaw loaders is expected to rise, making now the perfect time to understand and leverage the best e rickshaw loader options.

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Republicans on the House Budget Committee offered a preview Wednesday of the programs they're looking to cut or overhaul as part of any agreement to lift the debt ceiling, a target list that includes food aid for low-income families, climate justice and electric vehicle funding, student debt relief, and Affordable Care Act subsidies.

The proposed cuts were outlined in a press release issued by Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Texas), the chair of the House Budget Committee.

In total, Arrington put forth roughly $780 billion in proposed spending cuts, nearly half of which would come from reversing President Joe Biden's student debt cancellation—a plan that is currently blocked pending a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court.

Notably absent from the House GOP's outline was any mention of the U.S. military budget, which currently represents more than half of the federal government's discretionary spending and is a hotbed of the kind of waste and fraud that Republicans claim to oppose.

At $858 billion, the fiscal year 2023 military budget alone is larger than the $780 billion in cuts Arrington has floated.

Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.), the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee, said in a statement to Bloomberg that the GOP's proposed spending cuts are a needless attack on the vulnerable.

Experts have repeatedly warned that more stringent income verification and work requirements for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients, for instance, would result in food aid cuts for many needy families.

"Why is it that whenever tough choices are required, Republicans want working families and children to make the sacrifice?" Boyle asked. "Why not keep our children fed and families healthy, and instead work with Democrats to ensure the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes?"

Arrington's recommendations come as the GOP is facing growing backlash over its efforts to use the debt ceiling—and the looming possibility of a U.S. default—as leverage to pursue steep spending cuts, something the party has done to disastrous effect in the past.

Advocacy groups and analysts were quick to assail Arrington's proposals.

The Debt Collective, an organization that supports student debt cancellation, wrote on Twitter that "it doesn't 'cost' $379 billion to cancel $379 billion of student debt."

"It's pure fiction to think that killing cancellation will mean the [Department of Education] will collect $379 billion," the group added. "Even the Federal Reserve knows there will be record defaults."

Krutika Amin, associate director of the Kaiser Family Foundation, noted that the GOP proposal to cap Affordable Care Act subsidies at 400% of the federal poverty line "would mean middle-income people pay more for coverage."

"A 60-year-old making $55,000 in 2023 pays 8.5% of their income on a silver plan," Amin observed. "Without subsidies, they would pay over 20% of their income on average."

[evindias]

Uttar Pradesh Govt has extended EV policy to 2027

The govt of Uttar Pradesh has announced that they are going to extend their electric vehicles plan to 2027. For this plan they included Rs350 crore as a incentives. They are very optimistic that this incentives will help to adopt the electric vehicles in future. Top point of Uttar Pradesh EV policy electric two wheeler subsidy is RS 5000 per vehecles electric four wheeler subsidy is RS 1 lakh…

[dbunicorn]

That's a shit ton of money and subsidies to.spend on a fucking car like a Tesla or rivian. For a dumb Canadian.

Makes you want to kill yourself on a mattresses singing Cher

Now that's mans car ain't it ladies? Jeff bezos must be proud.

Imagine if you'd gone hybrid right after the Prius. Soooo 💛. I went green so a child could get fucked. Brilliant logic.

Let me set up some roadblocks for my concrete truck cloetus.

Of course you knew. As productive billionaires, with children how could you not.

Women teaching women to lean in for thousands of years. How much plastic can you inject into your tits and ass while puking out a tuna fish sandwich and brain washing children? Boooo

Makes you want to prostitute a child for an amazing amazon gift card....math

Dangerous is having children and keeping your mouth shut at this global debasement of intellectual life.

You ARE the ugliest lowest common denominator.

Better? Watching an old woman cry, shit herself, and discuss assisted suicide.

ALIGNMENT

I actually post a lot of information. Are you really too stupid to get it the first time? Idiocy a mandate? Civilizational decline the goal? All my life but really the last 10 years......holy shit you're fucking morons looking to prove it.

[gaadikey]

FICCI Submits Proposal for FAME 3 Scheme for Electric Vehicles

Emphasizing the need for enabling upfront near price-parity for Electric Vehicles vis a vis ICE vehicle, to help increase the adoption of EVs over the next few years, FICCI has submitted its proposal to Ministry of Heavy Industries, Govt of India for continuation of FAME scheme for next 5 years, with a review at the end of 3 years. The time period for the current FAME II scheme is till March…

[evehiclesaura]

Indonesia Removes Restrictions on EV Subsidies After Slow Start

Indonesia has expanded its electric motorcycle subsidy program in an effort to increase adoption of electric vehicles. The program aims to support the country’s goal of reducing fuel reliance and achieving net zero emissions by 2060, According to ( the edge malaysia). Expanded Access to Accelerate Adoption The Indonesian government has opened access to the subsidy to all citizens over 16 years…

[emma6677]

Delhi Government’s EV Subsidy and TATA Power-DDL Supercharge SWITCH Delhi

In collaboration with DISCOMs, the Delhi Government has initiated a unified platform to facilitate the setup of private electric vehicle (EV) charging stations across the national capital. This program is specifically aimed at enabling the establishment of EV charging stations at residential and semi-public locations within the Delhi region.

After benefiting from the Delhi government's electric vehicle subsidy, individuals will incur a mere ₹2,500 expense for the installation of a charging point for electric two or three-wheelers. The convenience of a single-window process is now accessible through online platforms and phone calls. Aligned with the private EV charger subsidy initiative of the Delhi Government, Tata Power-DDL has already enlisted the services of 12 vendors to streamline the installation of slow and moderate chargers. Once a request is submitted, the installation and activation of these EV chargers will be finalized within just seven business days. Feel free to click here to view the list of approved vendors.

With the aim of motivating Delhi's residents to transition from traditional automobiles to electric vehicles, the Government of NCT of Delhi initiated the Switch Delhi campaign. As part of this initiative, dedicated social media channels were established to establish a direct link with the city's inhabitants and raise awareness regarding the advantages of embracing electric vehicles.

Embracing Sustainable Alternatives: The Electric Vehicle (EV) Movement:

TATA Power-DDL has consistently taken the lead in adopting innovative technologies and fostering sustainable progress. We stand behind the Indian Government’s 'National Electric Mobility Mission' and the Delhi Government's aspiration to drive Switch Delhi Campaign and position Delhi as the country's electric vehicle hub.

Committed to sustainable progress, we actively engage in devising effective business models and advanced technologies that deliver significant positive outcomes for society.

In alignment with this principle, advocating for E-vehicles within the National Capital Territory stands as a paramount objective, given the escalating levels of air pollution in the region.

The critical air quality situation in Delhi necessitates urgent action, particularly with vehicles emerging as a primary source of atmospheric contamination in the capital.

Accelerating the adoption of Delhi government's electric vehicle subsidy emerges as a pivotal strategy for enhancing air quality, curbing noise pollution, and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.

Tata Power-DDL is actively spearheading the development of public charging stations and battery-swapping infrastructure within its designated jurisdiction, championing a paradigm shift towards eco-conscious and pristine transportation solutions.

[benandstevesposts]

Another reason oil companies use to raise prices on gasoline and home heating fuels is when there are no other issues. ‘The weather is too hot!’

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Tesla's Dieselgate

Elon Musk lies a lot. He lies about being a “utopian socialist.” He lies about being a “free speech absolutist.” He lies about which companies he founded:

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-cofounder-martin-eberhard-interview-history-elon-musk-ev-market-2023-2 He lies about being the “chief engineer” of those companies:

https://www.quora.com/Was-Elon-Musk-the-actual-engineer-behind-SpaceX-and-Tesla

He lies about really stupid stuff, like claiming that comsats that share the same spectrum will deliver steady broadband speeds as they add more users who each get a narrower slice of that spectrum:

https://www.eff.org/wp/case-fiber-home-today-why-fiber-superior-medium-21st-century-broadband

The fundamental laws of physics don’t care about this bullshit, but people do. The comsat lie convinced a bunch of people that pulling fiber to all our homes is literally impossible — as though the electrical and phone lines that come to our homes now were installed by an ancient, lost civilization. Pulling new cabling isn’t a mysterious art, like embalming pharaohs. We do it all the time. One of the poorest places in America installed universal fiber with a mule named “Ole Bub”:

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-one-traffic-light-town-with-some-of-the-fastest-internet-in-the-us

Previous tech barons had “reality distortion fields,” but Musk just blithely contradicts himself and pretends he isn’t doing so, like a budget Steve Jobs. There’s an entire site devoted to cataloging Musk’s public lies:

https://elonmusk.today/

But while Musk lacks the charm of earlier Silicon Valley grifters, he’s much better than they ever were at running a long con. For years, he’s been promising “full self driving…next year.”

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/09/herbies-revenge/#100-billion-here-100-billion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money

He’s hasn’t delivered, but he keeps claiming he has, making Teslas some of the deadliest cars on the road:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/

Tesla is a giant shell-game masquerading as a car company. The important thing about Tesla isn’t its cars, it’s Tesla’s business arrangement, the Tesla-Financial Complex:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/24/no-puedo-pagar-no-pagara/#Rat

Once you start unpacking Tesla’s balance sheets, you start to realize how much the company depends on government subsidies and tax-breaks, combined with selling carbon credits that make huge, planet-destroying SUVs possible, under the pretense that this is somehow good for the environment:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/14/for-sale-green-indulgences/#killer-analogy

But even with all those financial shenanigans, Tesla’s got an absurdly high valuation, soaring at times to 1600x its profitability:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/15/hoover-calling/#intangibles

That valuation represents a bet on Tesla’s ability to extract ever-higher rents from its customers. Take Tesla’s batteries: you pay for the battery when you buy your car, but you don’t own that battery. You have to rent the right to use its full capacity, with Tesla reserving the right to reduce how far you go on a charge based on your willingness to pay:

https://memex.craphound.com/2017/09/10/teslas-demon-haunted-cars-in-irmas-path-get-a-temporary-battery-life-boost/

That’s just one of the many rent-a-features that Tesla drivers have to shell out for. You don’t own your car at all: when you sell it as a used vehicle, Tesla strips out these features you paid for and makes the next driver pay again, reducing the value of your used car and transfering it to Tesla’s shareholders:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/6/21127243/tesla-model-s-autopilot-disabled-remotely-used-car-update

To maintain this rent-extraction racket, Tesla uses DRM that makes it a felony to alter your own car’s software without Tesla’s permission. This is the root of all autoenshittification:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

This is technofeudalism. Whereas capitalists seek profits (income from selling things), feudalists seek rents (income from owning the things other people use). If Telsa were a capitalist enterprise, then entrepreneurs could enter the market and sell mods that let you unlock the functionality in your own car:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/11/1-in-3/#boost-50

But because Tesla is a feudal enterprise, capitalists must first secure permission from the fief, Elon Musk, who decides which companies are allowed to compete with him, and how.

Once a company owns the right to decide which software you can run, there’s no limit to the ways it can extract rent from you. Blocking you from changing your device’s software lets a company run overt scams on you. For example, they can block you from getting your car independently repaired with third-party parts.

But they can also screw you in sneaky ways. Once a device has DRM on it, Section 1201 of the DMCA makes it a felony to bypass that DRM, even for legitimate purposes. That means that your DRM-locked device can spy on you, and because no one is allowed to explore how that surveillance works, the manufacturer can be incredibly sloppy with all the personal info they gather:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/29/tesla-model-3-keeps-data-like-crash-videos-location-phone-contacts.html

All kinds of hidden anti-features can lurk in your DRM-locked car, protected from discovery, analysis and criticism by the illegality of bypassing the DRM. For example, Teslas have a hidden feature that lets them lock out their owners and summon a repo man to drive them away if you have a dispute about a late payment:

https://tiremeetsroad.com/2021/03/18/tesla-allegedly-remotely-unlocks-model-3-owners-car-uses-smart-summon-to-help-repo-agent/

DRM is a gun on the mantlepiece in Act I, and by Act III, it goes off, revealing some kind of ugly and often dangerous scam. Remember Dieselgate? Volkswagen created a line of demon-haunted cars: if they thought they were being scrutinized (by regulators measuring their emissions), they switched into a mode that traded performance for low emissions. But when they believed themselves to be unobserved, they reversed this, emitting deadly levels of NOX but delivering superior mileage.

The conversion of the VW diesel fleet into mobile gas-chambers wouldn’t have been possible without DRM. DRM adds a layer of serious criminal jeopardy to anyone attempting to reverse-engineer and study any device, from a phone to a car. DRM let Apple claim to be a champion of its users’ privacy even as it spied on them from asshole to appetite:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar

Now, Tesla is having its own Dieselgate scandal. A stunning investigation by Steve Stecklow and Norihiko Shirouzu for Reuters reveals how Tesla was able to create its own demon-haunted car, which systematically deceived drivers about its driving range, and the increasingly desperate measures the company turned to as customers discovered the ruse:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/

The root of the deception is very simple: Tesla mis-sells its cars by falsely claiming ranges that those cars can’t attain. Every person who ever bought a Tesla was defrauded.

But this fraud would be easy to detect. If you bought a Tesla rated for 353 miles on a charge, but the dashboard range predictor told you that your fully charged car could only go 150 miles, you’d immediately figure something was up. So your Telsa tells another lie: the range predictor tells you that you can go 353 miles.

But again, if the car continued to tell you it has 203 miles of range when it was about to run out of charge, you’d figure something was up pretty quick — like, the first time your car ran out of battery while the dashboard cheerily informed you that you had 203 miles of range left.

So Teslas tell a third lie: when the battery charge reached about 50%, the fake range is replaced with the real one. That way, drivers aren’t getting mass-stranded by the roadside, and the scam can continue.

But there’s a new problem: drivers whose cars are rated for 353 miles but can’t go anything like that far on a full charge naturally assume that something is wrong with their cars, so they start calling Tesla service and asking to have the car checked over.

This creates a problem for Tesla: those service calls can cost the company $1,000, and of course, there’s nothing wrong with the car. It’s performing exactly as designed. So Tesla created its boldest fraud yet: a boiler-room full of anti-salespeople charged with convincing people that their cars weren’t broken.

This new unit — the “diversion team” — was headquartered in a Nevada satellite office, which was equipped with a metal xylophone that would be rung in triumph every time a Tesla owner was successfully conned into thinking that their car wasn’t defrauding them.

When a Tesla owner called this boiler room, the diverter would run remote diagnostics on their car, then pronounce it fine, and chide the driver for having energy-hungry driving habits (shades of Steve Jobs’s “You’re holding it wrong”):

https://www.wired.com/2010/06/iphone-4-holding-it-wrong/

The drivers who called the Diversion Team weren’t just lied to, they were also punished. The Tesla app was silently altered so that anyone who filed a complaint about their car’s range was no longer able to book a service appointment for any reason. If their car malfunctioned, they’d have to request a callback, which could take several days.

Meanwhile, the diverters on the diversion team were instructed not to inform drivers if the remote diagnostics they performed detected any other defects in the cars.

The diversion team had a 750 complaint/week quota: to juke this stat, diverters would close the case for any driver who failed to answer the phone when they were eventually called back. The center received 2,000+ calls every week. Diverters were ordered to keep calls to five minutes or less.

Eventually, diverters were ordered to cease performing any remote diagnostics on drivers’ cars: a source told Reuters that “Thousands of customers were told there is nothing wrong with their car” without any diagnostics being performed.

Predicting EV range is an inexact science as many factors can affect battery life, notably whether a journey is uphill or downhill. Every EV automaker has to come up with a figure that represents some kind of best guess under a mix of conditions. But while other manufacturers err on the side of caution, Tesla has the most inaccurate mileage estimates in the industry, double the industry average.

Other countries’ regulators have taken note. In Korea, Tesla was fined millions and Elon Musk was personally required to state that he had deceived Tesla buyers. The Korean regulator found that the true range of Teslas under normal winter conditions was less than half of the claimed range.

Now, many companies have been run by malignant narcissists who lied compulsively — think of Thomas Edison, archnemesis of Nikola Tesla himself. The difference here isn’t merely that Musk is a deeply unfit monster of a human being — but rather, that DRM allows him to defraud his customers behind a state-enforced opaque veil. The digital computers at the heart of a Tesla aren’t just demons haunting the car, changing its performance based on whether it believes it is being observed — they also allow Musk to invoke the power of the US government to felonize anyone who tries to peer into the black box where he commits his frauds.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/#demon-haunted-world

This Sunday (July 30) at 1530h, I’m appearing on a panel at Midsummer Scream in Long Beach, CA, to discuss the wonderful, award-winning “Ghost Post” Haunted Mansion project I worked on for Disney Imagineering.

Image ID [A scene out of an 11th century tome on demon-summoning called 'Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros. Anno 1057. Noli me tangere.' It depicts a demon tormenting two unlucky would-be demon-summoners who have dug up a grave in a graveyard. One summoner is held aloft by his hair, screaming; the other screams from inside the grave he is digging up. The scene has been altered to remove the demon's prominent, urinating penis, to add in a Tesla supercharger, and a red Tesla Model S nosing into the scene.]

Image: Steve Jurvetson (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tesla_Model_S_Indoors.jpg

CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

My 2nd year EV Anniversary in my Peugeot e208

[biglisbonnews]

Thousands of EV Charge Points To Be Installed Across London To aid in London’s transition to a net-zero carbon metropolis by the year 2030, Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, and the London Councils have announced the installation of thousands more electric vehicle charge points in all 32 boroughs and the city of London. A third of the UK’s total electric charge points are located […] https://cleantechnica.com/2023/04/14/thousands-of-ev-charge-points-to-be-installed-across-london/