Three organizations -- Electric Vehicles' Association of Nepal (EVAN), Clean Energy Nepal (CEN) and Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Promotion in International Cooperation (REPIC) of Switzerland -- are jointly promoting the lithium batteries among those operating EVs in Nepal. LiFePO4 batteries increase an EV's efficiency if it switches over from lead acid batteries and also gives more comparative long-term profit, they said at the launch event of the technology held on Sunday.
The group is planning to promote batteries' use in electric taxis, micro vans, larger electric buses and other small EVs.
"The introduction of this technology will prove a milestone for Nepal's EV industry as the lithium battery technology is more advanced, environment-friendly and cost-efficient," Umesh Raj Shrestha, chairman of EVAN said in a statement, adding: "This is a much-needed technology for Nepal's EV sector."
According to Shrestha, the lithium battery technology will be demonstrated in 10 sapha tempos and then the result of this technology will be analyzed and compared with that of lead acid batteries. "The demonstration will prove the need to replace lead acid batteries with lithium batteries," Shrestha added.
At the market launch, officials of CEN said they decide to support the project after analyzing the benefit of lithium batteries in EVs over lead acid batteries. The officials said lithium batteries had a range of 120 km per charge and a life span of six years to lead acid batteries' one and half year.
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