How the electric bike market in India will improve?

India has a large business in cycles and petrol bikes. Electric bikes come under middle segment and India is seen as future hub for electric vehicles business. Market is expected to rise by 100% this year and then 200% in the consequent years. But in order to realize this trend, we need to collectively work on the following points.

1. Strict adherence to the quality practices and should meet the automotive standards. Customer should be happy to buy using his hard earned money.

2. Entrepreneurs should take up the projects to manufacture e-bike components i.e. Battery, motors, controllers, chargers, converters, wire harness, chassis etc.

3. Best after sales service will attract the end user. Spare parts should be available easily.

4. Government should give subsidy to EV companies.

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Expert review of Ampere Adya Model

This model is similar like Hero Honda streak in its looks but an electrical version. Battery used in sealed lead acid battery 48V 20AH, BLDC hub alloy wheel Motor & controller used and are having good power and pickup and able to carry 150 kg i.e. a driver and pillion. Once fully charged, it covers a distance of 60 km. Charger is provided as accessory and fits to our house hold power outlet. Detailed component wise review of Ampere Adya Battery used is sealed lead acid type which is maintenance free. The life of the battery expected is one and half year to two years. But keeping in view of power of the bike, battery might last maximum of one year or slightly higher. Motor and controller are of BLDC type and having good pickup and load carrying capability. The power rating is 250W and is within license less category. Battery charger used is 48V 20AH or 60V 20AH type based on the variant chosen.


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Purpose of this Guide

This guide provides you the necessary technical details and general guidelines for buying an electric bike for your requirement. A little technical knowledge is sufficient for understanding this manual.

Green revolution has started in the world, we can see many electric bike companies are evolving now. At present China constitutes a share of 70% of world electric bikes and India is seen as future destination for EV companies. Currently there are 45 electric bike companies in India selling their electric bikes. You can browse this link for the companies list –http://www.evhub.biz/ebikehome .

Keeping in view the advantages of electric bikes in controlling the climatic changes, many other countries are promoting their usage. This manual is restricted to electric two wheelers only.

No doubt, Electric Bike is an entirely new technology to this world after the 100 years of monarchy by the convectional fuel vehicles. Hence a little education is required to the costumers about this new technology before they commit to buy an electric bike. Hence EVHUB.BIZ has compiled this free book for the prospective customers to guide them while selecting their electric bike.

This guide will help you to understand what questions to be asked and what to be noted when searching for an E-bike.

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Before you start reading, you need to know how to use this guide. You will be taught the technical terminology being used in subsequent pages, we explained the basic understanding of various components of electric bikes, state of art technical specifications of these component and finally various questions to asked while buying an electric bike.

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Articles collection on electric vehicles

List of articles which were written on electric vehicles, renewable energy and various other green technologies

• Technology Overview of Electric Bikes in India – Read full article
• Understanding of various features observed in existing Electric bikes – Read full article
• A letter to Supreme court of India on Electric Vehicles – Read full article
• India Ready For Electric Vehicles – Read full article
• An Esoteric Presentation On Electric Bikes In India – Read full article
• How About Creating An Electric Vehicle Platform? – Read full article
• Brushless DC Motors – Technology For Future Transportation – Read full article
• Best practices while using electric bikes – Read full article
• How the electric bike market in India will improve? – Read full article
• Subsidy for battery operated vehicles – Experiences – Read full article
• Petrol hike giving a way for electric bikes in India – Read full article
• India on electric wheels – Read full article
• Future of Electric Vehicles – Read full article
• Is Electric Vehicles Business Still in Nascent Stage in India? – Read full article
• Growth of Electric Bikes – A Potential Business Opportunity – Read Full article
• Electric Bikes in India – Read full article

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Yamaha mulls electric 2-wheeler for India; 2 new bikes in 2011

New Delhi, Mar 6 (PTI) Japanese auto giant Yamaha today said it might consider launching an electric bike in the fast growing Indian two-wheeler market to offer an alternative mode transportation.
The company''s wholly-owned subsidiary, India Yamaha Motor, is also developing an India-specific scooter that will hit the roads in the "near future". Besides, it will launch two new bikes in the country in this year.
"For rising fuel prices, electric bike is a good option.
Currently we are selling electric bikes in Japan and Europe.
There is a possibility for the Indian market for introducing these products," India Yamaha Motor Director (Sales and Marketing) Jun Nakata told PTI.
He, however, did not share details like specifications and when the firm was likely to launch the products in India.
Last year, the company had said it would focus more on India with more investments and aimed to have 10 per cent of its total global sales from the country within the next 3-4 years.
When asked about its plans for the scooter segment, Nakata said: "We are preparing to enter the scooter market.
The product is under development in Japan and it will be an India-specific product."

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Duty Concession on electric battery imports to boost e-bikes

This year's Union Budget is likely to pump in some steam into the sales of electric bikes in the country that use imported batteries to power them.

The country does not have an indigenous manufacturer of electric batteries now, and they are mostly imported from China. Sohinder Gill, chief executive officer of Hero Electric said, "Currently,there is no indigenous manufacturer of electric batteries in the country. All batteries are imported.

Reading out the Union Budget of 2011-12, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said that the full exemption from basic customs duty and a concessional rate of central excise duty of 4 per cent for specified parts of electric vehicles that was announced in the last budget would be extended to batteries imported by manufacturers.

This would result in a reduction of around Rs 1500 in the cost of an electric battery that now costs around Rs 6500. A consumer needs to replace the battery of his bike once a year. As Gill explains, reduction in battery cost is equivalent to reduction in fuel cost for an electric vehicle. "At the current rate of 22 per cent import duty, manufacturers can pass on the benefit to the consumers and reduce the cost of the battery."

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Flexible Electronics is the Winner

The silicon chip took over forty years to approach a $300 billion business today. Now there is a new form of electronics that will hit that figure in half the time because, unlike the silicon chip, it subsumes electrics such as lighting, batteries, solar cells and heaters, not just electronics. It is usually achieved by printing and its most vital characteristic is physical flexibility. Take that as meaning a variety of capabilities valued in the marketplace such as foldability, conformance to architectural features, stretchability and even the ability to be tightly rolled, worn, washed and waterproof. Some forms survive being hammered and even stabbed so, in the main, we are talking of putting electrics and electronics where they could never go before. Another aspect is biodegradability where needed, even printing electronics onto paper. Multilayer structures are increasingly possible, reducing the number of interconnects and the area needed and increasing reliability.

The world's largest event exploring this new world and what comes next is the IDTechEx Printed Electronics & Photovoltaics Europe 2011 taking place in Düsseldorf 5-6 April. The presentations give a guide as to the most vital aspects being brought to market. For example, mobile phone company Nokia will talk about its work on stretchable electronics, something more usually related to healthcare products. The Samsung speaker Dr Bonwon Koo refer to customers wanting to carry something small that give wide area viewing and how its record breaking flexible polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) displays are one route to that market need. They are driven by ink jet printed transistor backplanes.

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Printed Electronics - Many New Directions

Samsung Electronics of South Korea had approximately $132 billion in sales in 2010 and it is prioritising printed electronics for the future, its commitment extending to making its required materials, production machines and components and manufacturing complete products based on this new and versatile technology. Panasonic of Japan, a company of similar size, is also seeking to deploy electronic printing much more widely. It is seen as an enabling technology that is already cost reducing their electronic and electrical products. Today's examples include the filter and liquid crystal layers in LCDs and of course antennas, flexible keyboards and so on. Inkjet printing is being rapidly deployed for printing electrodes on solar cells, where non-contact deposition is desired because the ever thinning solar cells become more fragile. In the future, we have the prospect of flexible colour e-readers and television sets and even the printing of large lithium-ion traction batteries for the booming electric vehicle market. This is therefore as much about electrics as electronics and we only call it printed electronics for brevity.

The roadmaps were wrong

Earlier roadmaps for printed electronics have been almost entirely erroneous. It is not primarily about cost reduction, nor is there a trend towards organic versions taking over most applications. It is no longer focussed mainly on improving existing products. It targets doing what was previously impossible to create radically different consumer propositions. For example Nokia of Finland is about to make announcements concerning its work on stretchable printed electronics. Consumer goods companies see a next level of retailing involving far more noticeable, appealing and informative human interfaces provided by printed electronics. These will appeal to more of the human senses. Examples include Mars Inc., the world's largest petfood company, which is also a leader in human foods, and Metro Group of Germany is one of the largest supermarket chains in the world.

A new ten year road map reflecting some of the recent changes of direction with printed electronic materials, components, circuits and resulting products is shown below. For clarity, only a few of the changes of direction and new targets and timelines are shown as the market heads for over $55 billion in 2020.
A new ten year road map for printed electronics reflecting some of the recent changes of direction with the materials, components, circuits and resulting products.

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Source IDTechEx Report "Printed, Organic & Flexible Electronics Forecasts, Players & Opportunities 2011-2021" http://www.IDTechEx.com/pe

In Germany, Platingtech and Future Shape are seeing huge interest in their smart textiles and apparel created with printed electronics while T-Ink in the USA is using it to radically reduce the weight and cost and increase space in the new electric cars, having already had great success with printed electronic toys and novelties. Indeed, T-Ink has some groundbreaking propositions for consumer goods as have Flexible Electronics Concepts and Novalia in the UK. Soligie in the USA has an impressively expanding repertoire of high volume production capability to meet the required output and price points with these. On different tack, outdoor promotions leader JC Decaux in France is eager to see the large area deployment of moving colour, sound and so on in billboards posters and the like.

Many users are developers now

It is little wonder that some large organisations are now both developers and users of printed electronics, including the US Army, which sees scope for radically new components made possible with printed electronics. That even includes printing energy harvesting layers such as the VirginiaTech CEHMS piezoelectric layers that convert movement into electricity.

Basic building blocks

In the new world of multilayer electronic printing it is best not to worry too much about where electronics begins and electrics ends: they are merging. However, making basic building blocks such as timers and energy harvesting with storage will be important. Consider the European FACESS project depositing a complete photovoltaic, power conversion and storage unit on a single plastic film. The Bayer of Germany breakthrough in combining "fidelity haptics" and light management with their polycarbonate film is also relevant here. DuPont Teijin of the USA is leader in the specialist polyester films used in other printed electronics.

New semiconductors

Many developers in East Asia now see organic transistors improving in cost and performance too slowly to be the best solution for many high frequency circuits in consumer goods. For display backplanes, zinc oxide based semiconductors such as InGaZnO are prioritised for commercialisation about two years after organic ones. A precursor of this was the 40 inch inkjet printed OLED television using RF sputtered zinc oxide backplane transistors that Samsung demonstrated last year. The printed manganese dioxide zinc batteries from Blue Spark are being successfully incorporated into other printing processes. On the other hand, Samsung now has the world's first 4.8 inch full colour active matrix PDLC display driven by printed organic transistors on a plastic substrate. Indeed, Thinfilm of Norway is well ahead with printed memory by depositing superior organic ferroelectrics and progressing to complete circuits.

The introduction of printable copper by several companies last year, including Novacentrix and intinsiq, has led to a race to replace silver inks, with their price hikes, in some applications such as antennas and transistor electrodes and interconnects. The alternative approach of using less silver by applying nano silver inks is also gaining traction. Much further down the line are CNT, graphene and other conductors and semiconductors offering even better performance. Meanwhile, Heraeus is leader in organic transparent conductive inks and allied products with its Clevios brand.

Change in deposition machinery

As for deposition, screen and inkjet printing are the most widely deployed for printed electronics but flexo and gravure and occasionally fast letterpress are now encountered. Sometimes, using regular printing machines with minimal modification is in prospect. For example, organic photovoltaics and OLEDs are relatively straightforward to print but they need very good barrier sealants against oxygen and water ingress. Fortunately companies such as Henkel have new advances in this area.

Unique event

So how can one learn more about this tsunami wave of progress and meet the key people? The answer is simple. All the above companies are presenting or exhibiting at the world's leading event on the subject "Printed Electronics Europe" in Düsseldorf Germany on April 5-6 (www.IDTechEx.com/peEUROPE). Add to that five presentations on printing electronics onto paper, for instance, and a large number on the new flexible photovoltaics. There will be optional masterclasses and visits to centres of excellence in the subject on the day before and the day after the two day conference and exhibition. With an awards dinner and many other opportunities to network, free information and working samples, the event will be even more unmissable this year. See www.IDTechEx.com/peEUROPE for details.

Printed Electronics Widens Its Scope

Printed electronics has its origins in conductive patterns printed as part of conventional electronics, forming flexible keyboards, antennas and so on. Then came fully printed testers on batteries, electronic skin patches and other devices made entirely by printing, including batteries and displays. A clear next step has been to modernise static print with the e-reader and the talking poster with animated, light emitting display and solar power. These are partly or almost wholly printed, with a clear roadmap to making them lower cost and more reliable and flexible by using printing more fully in their manufacture in future.

Making new products possible

However, we now see printed electronics and electrics certain to penetrate far more applications than anyone realised. For example, large batteries have often used a measure of printing of simple electrodes and connectors but much more sophisticated printing processes are being applied to next generation solid state batteries in such things as power tools and traction batteries for the booming electric car industry, even the electrolyte being deposited by print like processes. An important engine of this dramatic widening of the scope of printed electronics is new materials, particularly relatively low cost, non toxic ones with superlative electronic and electric properties from creation of light to sensing of specific gases and generation of power in various ways. A great deal of work is going on to develop these into electronic healthcare disposables for testing and drug administration, to take just two examples.

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The 2nd Annual Green Fuels & Vehicles China 2011

2^nd Annual Green Fuels & Vehicles China 2011 will be convened on April 7-8 in Beijing, China. This year the event will focus on exploring the technical and commercial roadmaps for alternative fuels and new energy vehicles, discuss the policy incentives, market outlook, technical innovations and charging infrastructure development of the industry. It is China’s leading international networking and information exchange platform for new energy vehicle industry.

This year, the event is expected to invite more than 200+ multiple stakeholders from global green fuels and vehicles fraternities including 30⁺ vehicle OEMs, 20⁺ auto component providers, 15⁺ battery manufactures and service & solution providers and regulators, like Mercedes-Benz, PSA Peugot Citroen, Volkswagen, Toyota Motor Corporation, Mitsubishi Motors, General Motor, Ford Motor, Renault, Chery Automobile Co., Ltd. , SAIC Group, BYD Auto , CHANA Auto, Nissan, Geely Automobile Institute Co., Ltd., Better Place, GE Energy Services, A123 Systems, DSM engineering, Johnson Control, 3M Ltd., IBM, Siemens, CIE Automotive Part’s Shanghai Co., Ltd, Efore Energy for Electronics, Shenzhen Grart Technology Co., Ltd., Autoliv BV. & Co. KG, Lyondell Basell Industries, Maxim Integrated Products, Infineum, Alstom Group, O2Micro, Ernst&Young, etc. …

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Petrol hike giving a way for electric bikes in India

Public Sector Oil companies has increased the petrol prices by Rs.2.5 recently. Petrol prices has increased by Rs.10 in last 7 months which is nothing but 22% increase. This is a threat to our economy and automobile sectors. Interestingly this outcome has given a great opportunity for electric vehicle sector to stand and speak their advantages i.e. noiseless, smoke-free drive. Currently the total e-bike industry in India constitutes of less than 5% of automobile sector and looking for a positive market trend. No doubt this is an optimistic change for electric vehicle industry who are looking for a break in their slow moving business.

In addition, government has given subsidy to all electric vehicle manufacturers under SMEV (society of manufacturers of electric vehicles) and fueling its rise. This subsidy will be of Rs.4000-Rs.5000 for electric two wheelers and Rs. 1 lakh for electric cars.

Infact due to the recent hike in petrol charges, the per km cost usage for a petrol bike has risen more than a rupee now. Hence as this trend continues, the petrol will become dearer and per km usage will increase. On the other hand the per km cost of using sealed lead acid battery based electric bike is around 50 paise( including the battery replacement cost for 20,000 km). Hence electric bikes are competitive than its petrol counterparts.

If we foresee the future, electric bikes will be at their high volumes due to the rising trend of petrol world wide.

Printed Electronics Enters Fast Growth phase

Printed electronics is associated with some orders, investments and acquisitions that are one hundred times as big as the largest two years ago. Now we can laminate solar power onto a large dirigible, for example, and Northrop Grumman in the USA has just landed an order for $517 million to make one for surveillance from the upper atmosphere that is based on flexible photovoltaics. Delivery will be in 2012. Boeing in the USA has won $89 million in funding from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA for the second phase of the Vulture long-endurance unmanned aerial system UAS program made possible by flexible photovoltaics.

After more than ten years Plastic Logic has yet to launch a product but it has just gained commitment of what it describes as nearly "one billion dollars in total". Plastic Logic started as an IP company in printed transistors then changed strategy to try to launch a thin, flexible printed e-reader. However, technical problems and the sweeping success of the Amazon KindleTM and Apple I-PadTM put that on hold. However, the enabling technology of Plastic Logic remains very exciting for a host of potential uses.

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