No 'ah hah' moment yet for electric vehicles: Incremental change won't work

Change on the ground is so minuscule that the reality of dirty energy and dirty vehicles swamps the little benefits

Sunita Narain 

Sunita Narain

Do you feel, like me, that an “Ah Hah” moment is just there, but we keep missing it? Just consider how e-vehicles are now the talk of the town; how the industry has the technology to make fuel from solid waste or even second-generation ethanol from bamboo and rice straw-run vehicles without pollution and change the way we do business with pollution.

The technology in reach now promises to convert municipal waste and sewage into fuel. In one stroke, we de-carbonise vehicles, deal with garbage, and achieve the best emission standards — better than the BS VI emission ...

First Published: Mon, February 12 2018. 08:24 IST