To Build Electric Vehicles or Internal Combustion Engines?

An electronics engineer engaged in the manufacturing of automobile parts in India writes:

A few years back I designed and manufactured the smallest gasoline powered two wheeler in India and sold around 100 of them. But as you know the two stroke engine was a major environment threat, so we discontinued it. Your email came to me at such a time that we had just finished the testing of the same vehicle with an electric motor, and after reading the first brass tack I have become more determined to go ahead with the conversion of my old design to electric one, keeping the school kids in mind and other short-distance commuters. We are also working on the e-rickshaw. I think we all have to do our bit to save the environment.

In my mind, this underscored a great number of really cool things I see going on the renewable energy space:

It’s happening all over the world.

In many cases, it’s a selfless, pay-it-forward thing, happening on behalf of future generations.

We all have the power to inspire one another. I told my wife and kids about this reader’s decision to pursue her EV design, and it brought tears to my wife’s eyes.

Thank you.