is a homegrown startup that is offering four-door, four-wheel, battery-swappable electric vehicles. They will provide 25 battery swap stations in Dhaka city with an estimated swap time of 2 minutes.
, is caught in the bind of wanting to make rapid progress in the penetration of EVs, but yet needing to protect its domestic industries. Too much tariff protection stifles competition.. “While the number of electric three-wheelers has increased drastically in recent years, electric cars are yet to gain a significant foothold in the country. Consumers’ purchasing capacity and motivation remain difficult hurdles to the uptake of electric cars.
“For instance, on May 8, 7,139MW of electricity generation capacity was not used thanks to the fuel crisis and maintenance-related down time, shows data from the Power Grid Company of Bangladesh. About 3,653MW capacity was not utilised for fuel crisis and another 3,486MW for maintenance-related issues … Bangladesh imports 1,160MW of electricity from India, which supplied around 1,011MW of electricity on average.
The Bangladesh power sector is subsidized by the government as it is running at a loss. The hope would be that greater use of EVs would give the sector another income stream, plus reduce the country’s dependence on imported petrol and diesel.
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