siliconindia | | December 201919around the world. Electric cars are initially expensive, but with the dropping of battery prices, their thrust is likely to increase. Lower-cost and longer range cars, which cost much less to operate than conservative cars, will be attractive to buyers globally.Making energy-efficient cars will not fulfill the desired goal of reducing carbon emission. But in my view, Mass transportation (Public transportation, metro, tubes and others) is the realistic way forward. The U.S. remains highly auto-centric (Google's project - driverless cabs), but cities such as Helsinki and Hamburg in Europe, Beijing in China, Tokyo in Japan, and many others have ambitious, technology-aided plans to go car-free, app-based cabs and or bus services, ride sharing, municipal bicycles, and many others.The App-based aggregator companies `Ola-Cabs' and `UBER' Cab Service providers world-wide already introduced `Cabs on Call' and `Pool a Car', which are widely accepted by the general public at large across the World which is a good sign towards shifting of future transport model and a step towards reducing carbon emission. Fundamentally, all the experts agree that the transition to a clean/green energy economy will be difficult but possible. India's plan to ramp-up solar power generation to 100 GW by 2022 is among the largest in the world. It will help bring sustainable, clean, climate-friendly electricity to millions of Indians.The World Bank Group (WBG) is moving to help India deliver on its unprecedented plans to scale-up solar energy, from installing solar panels on rooftops to setting-up massive solar parks. The WBG is helping India by lending more than $1 billion in FY 2017. This is the WBG's largest-ever support for solar power in any country. The WBG is also backing the India-led International Solar Alliance which aims to promote solar use globally by mobilizing $1 trillion in investments by 2030.The world must turn to the sun to power our future India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the historic COP21 climate conference in Paris last year. "As the developing world lifts billions of people into prosperity, our hope for a sustainable planet rests on a bold, global initiative. Unveiling its own bold initiative, India pledged that it would derive at least 40 percent of its energy needs from renewable sources by 2030". India's plan to ramp-up solar power generation to 100 GW by 2022 is among the largest in the world. It will help bring sustainable, clean, climate-friendly electricity to millions of Indians
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