Indian voters are battling sweltering conditions to take part in the world’s biggest election as a severe heat wave hits parts of the country and authorities forecast a hotter-than-normal summer for the South Asian nation.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said a heat wave will affect parts of south and east India until the end of the week, including four states that are voting on Friday.
Parts of West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka are among 13 states and union territories voting in the second phase of India’s mammoth elections, with temperatures forecast to exceed 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in some areas.
On Thursday, Baripada in the eastern state of Odisha hit 43.6 C (110.4 F) and Telangana’s Khammam in the south reached 43.4 C (110.1 F), according to the IMD, which warned last month that India would likely see stronger and longer heat waves this year due to above-normal temperatures.
I don’t know why India doesn’t take climate change and pollution seriously…
Like, very few countries take it seriously enough. But China and India are feeling it more than almost any other country…
And they just don’t give a shit.
Because it’s a prisoners dilemma. They don’t have the money to suddenly buy a billion Teslas and trillion solar panels so either they burn the coal they have because everyone else is too, or they just give up trying to become an advanced economy while everyone else keeps polluting.
In either case tens of millions of people die on the subcontinent, but in one of them at least they get to improve their economy.
Why buy Teslas when BYD is cheaper than ICE vehicles?
And China’s solar panels are cheap as fuck.
Americans can’t buy either tho, but that’s because both our parties want corporations headquartered here to make those sales so it counts to GDP.
I don’t think India does that
I can answer that as an Indian casually in the market for an EV. The infrastructure isn’t really as good as western countries. Charging stations aren’t easy to find outside of major highways, and they aren’t as visible.
For intra-city users:
EVs are considerably more expensive than ICEs and India is a very price-sensitive market. The biggest successes for EVs here are Tata Nexons, for example. The ICE version starts at almost half the price of the EV.
Buyers will compare and run the numbers and unless you use it a lot, it can go either way. That combined with the iffy infrastructure is enough to make many people just go for ICE right now, in the hope that their next car will be an EV, when prices come down and tech is next-gen.
It is bound to happen. Prices are falling and more EVs are on the road, but it hasn’t reached critical mass yet.
Also, BYDs are actually quite expensive here compared to home grown solutions. Check the Tata EV range out.
Another factor that you’re overlooking is that India has a huge market of 2 wheelers, 3 wheelers and mini trucks. That’s a space where EVs make a lot of sense. They pay for themselves the more you use them.
So in food delivery, logistics, courier services etc., there’s already a very noticeable shift in motion, and that’s promising.
BYD is made by their enemy? It isn’t hard to figure out why they wouldn’t want to buy things from a hostile country.
I don’t know if that was a question or rhetorical…
But either way you’re wrong.
That doesn’t refute anything I said. How weird.
Do you think India and China are buddies?
Sound like they’re buying them…
BYD fell well short of its previously declared sales target of 15,000 units for CY2023, but still managed to outpace every other brand operating in the Rs 30 lakh to Rs 70 lakh price bracket.
Edit:
Oh…
You’re a mod of a conservative community…
That explains so much
and?
Tata is selling more. You keep trying to cite one specific range as proof BYD is dominating the market. Tata is selling more overall.
https://mnre.gov.in/solar-overview/
India has achieved 5th rank in the world in solar power deployment. As on 30-06-2023, solar projects of capacity of 70.10 GW have been commissioned in the country. The capacity of 70.10 GW includes 57.22 GW from ground-mounted solar projects, 10.37 GW from rooftop solar projects, and 2.51 GW from off-grid solar projects.
Off topic, but what car is that and where do I get one?
Hindustan Ambassador, unfortunately no longer in production.
I’m totally adding that to my list of dream cars.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
On Thursday, Baripada in the eastern state of Odisha hit 43.6 C (110.4 F) and Telangana’s Khammam in the south reached 43.4 C (110.1 F), according to the IMD, which warned last month that India would likely see stronger and longer heat waves this year due to above-normal temperatures.
The Election Commission, National Disaster Management Authority and IMD formed a task force to minimize the impact of heat waves ahead of polling days and Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a meeting earlier this month to review the country’s preparedness for the hot season.
The Election Commission has released guidelines for staying cool at polling stations, including drinking water and carrying an umbrella, and warned against leaving children or pets in parked cars.
The human-caused climate crisis is already threatening India’s development goals and putting millions of people at risk in a nation where more than 50% of the workforce is employed in agriculture, studies have found.
“You can see it in farmers asking for loan waivers and irrigation facilities after years of drought, in urban families demanding reduced electricity prices to offset cooling bills and in calls for more penetrating social welfare.”
Neighboring Bangladesh is sweltering through a heat wave this week with prolonged temperatures above 40 C in many districts and no relief during record hot nights, according to climatologist Maximiliano Herrera.
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