by Sriram Vadlamani
Toyota Prius uses the energy produced from braking and tries to replenish it for running the car. It also uses the kinetic energy produced from the spinning of wheels on a downhill to replenish some of the energy required to run the car. This would reduce the amount of energy (fossil fuel) needed to run the car. This car is best suited for city conditions. This was designed for US market.
Now, imagine the car in India.
I would say the car would never use the petrol in the tank. Any guesses why? In Indian cities you don’t do anything else other than hitting on the brake pedal. That is a lot of energy to run a car. So Isn’t Prius the better-suited car for India than Nano?
India needs a Prius or a Prius++, not Nano !
Nano would be an environmental disaster. It would clog the roads, the atmosphere and ultimately the lungs of little ones. Funny thing is Tata is doing the Indian society a great service by commoditizing the car market. Though they are running into loses already because of the Singur issue and the new plant to be set-up.
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by Arun Prabhudesai
WOW…What a month June has been ! The traffic went even beyond my expectation. Google seems to love trak.in. It ranks my blog very well on number of high traffic keywords.
A lot has happened in the month of June apart from registering high traffic growth. The feed subscriptions also went up, only marginally. I have moved to a new house personally. My startup hover.in also moved to new bigger office. We secured funding for hover.in as well in May.
Apart from this, hover.in is in the last phase of alpha. It will come out in Beta on August 1st. I am extremely excited about the way hover.in is turning out. I am sure Web publishers and bloggers will feast on our offering.
Moving on to Trak.in June Statistics, here is the snapshot of Google Analytics and Feedburner.
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