Electric Cars and alternate fuel....

For some who has been in Bangalore would be familiar with Reva, the small electric car which has been running in the city for quite long now. Infact the same could be said about people staying in London, because they are probably the two cities where one can see this car in higher numbers. Now with the crude expected to touch $200 per barrel, the government has taken certain proactive steps in promoting electric cars. Link and which would mean that we would be seeing the car in many other cities across the country.

And with this Reva is also planning to ramp up its capacity by 5 times, it should become a viable alternative for commuters.

And many small car manufactures are coming up with a gas version, one of the first one was Wagon-R , now maruti 800, even Santro is expected...

But then maybe for years we have been sitting on this issue of developing alternate fuel cars and not done much about it. There is one version which says that its is the major auto manufactures who have been blocking the development of alternate fuel vehicles, but then I think as individuals tell we are pushed to a corner with very high fuel cost (as was commented on my earlier post on fuel price hike) we will still prefer to use the petrol based cars....