[pvsukale3]

I am a young Indian. I have a dream . The dream that we are running electric vehicles. We have banned plastic everywhere. We have stopped burning our garbage. We have improved air quality. I think we can start with auto-rikshaws and public transport. Auto rickshaw constitute to a lot of traffic and pollution in the cities. We could replace them with smart electric ones. They move around only in cities so it won't be a big problem to build charging infrastructure. Then we could replace buses and increase their number. Ofcourse we need a lot of subsidies and incentives to make it happen. But it is POSSIBLE. but I need to build billion dollars companies ,sell them . Then use all that money to build this dream. I think someone did something like this in USA right? ;)

[sonink]

Auto-rickshaws are already ALL electric in some cities. Haridwar for one.

[archeopetrix]

I was in Haridwar last month and only auto-rickshaws I saw there were diesel guzzling Vikrams

[rajangdavis]

India is a large country.

[pvsukale3]

Yeah. But we have got to start somewhere. First we can focus on cities and then move towards rural India.

[crazystar]

50%* of our workforce relies on agriculture. Bringing up their standards of living i.e. rural India is what we need to focus on first.

*https://www.ibef.org/exports/agriculture-and-food-industry-i...

[pvsukale3]

Yeah. I sometimes think about it. The problem is most of the farmers have very less land. Also they use unsustainable methods and weather has been inconsistent in recent years. We need another agricultural revolution. But it's lot more complicated to get people on board. People in the rural area are really hard to work with ( not all of them ).They suffer , but they don't want change , they want subsidiaries , free loans. maybe we don't understand them because we live in the cities.