Speaking at a seminar at the vibrant Gujarat Global Summit in Gandhinagar, the minister urged automakers to invest in clean technologies, especially electric vehicles, and warned that if they don’t, they will “miss the bus.” ” he said.
The Indian government’s mission is to make India the world’s number one automobile manufacturing hub and make the automobile sector a Rs 25,000-crore industry, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday.
Speaking at a seminar at the vibrant Gujarat Global Summit in Gandhinagar, the minister urged automakers to invest in clean technologies, especially electric vehicles, and warned that if they don’t, they will “miss the bus.” ” he said. “We recently overtook Japan to become number 3 in car manufacturing. We aim to reach 25,000 billion and become the number one manufacturing hub in the world,” he said.
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Regarding the air pollution faced by major cities, the Minister of Road Transport and Highways said: “As Minister of Transport, we are responsible for 40 per cent of our air pollution… We import 85 per cent of our fossil fuels… In our country, 40 per cent of our carbon dioxide is imported.” Emissions are from the transport sector. Seen in… We need to find cost-effective, non-polluting and indigenous options that can replace imports. ”
Gadkari emphasized that one of the biggest problems associated with lithium batteries is their high cost. “We have 6 per cent of the world’s lithium reserves in Jammu and Kashmir…Recently, I have imported 1,200 tonnes of lithium ion and I have requested (the officials) to mine it urgently.” If this happens, we will be able to capture the global EV market. ”
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Originally uploaded to: December 1, 2024 02:01 IST