The majority of the 3-wheeled mini-taxi's (autoriksja or simply "auto" in India, tuk-tuk elsewhere) are "leased" to a driver in an informal way: someone with a bit of money to invest (privately) buys a vehicle, then on a day to day or month to month basis gives it to one or more drivers who need to take care of it and pay for the use, so they need to make enough rides to cover the operating cost, including the fuel, any necessary maintenance to keep it running and to pay the owner. What is left is their own income. The subsidized 2-stroke fuel that these vehicles take is sometimes in so short supply that you can find queued lines of auto's at the pumps that provide this fuel. Certainly making them plug-in will encourage the operator to use the cheap electricity as much as possible (I seem to remember that we paid about 3 pennies per kWh) to avoid paying the fuel that cost around $1 per liter. There are other drivers for the clean up - some cities only allow "clean" autos in the city centres, so the normal 2-stroke diesel-powered vehicles are forbidden from the most interesting market and only natural gas powered (and electric) autos are allowed in the centre. So, there might be a clear market where these can thrive and the drivers will definitely be interested in offset as much of the liquid fuel and take advantage of any charging opportunity they can find. Cor.
-----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of EVDL Administrator via EV Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2018 12:43 PM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Cc: EVDL Administrator Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVtransition.in : needs an EVSE infrastructure> (motorcycle-pih) On 5 May 2018 at 10:34, brucedp5 via EV wrote: > I would like to see this pih drive train also used on 3whl tuk-taxis or > micro-trucks until there is adequate contiguous EVSE installed. I wonder whether going this route might not actually discourage expansion of public chargers. If there's demand, someone will build them, no? These compromises will reduce demand without having very much effect on emissions. Maybe I'm being too simplistic and/or too optimistic. David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
