Indian voters are battling sweltering conditions to take part in the world’s biggest election as a severe heat wave hits parts of the country and authorities forecast a hotter-than-normal summer for the South Asian nation.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said a heat wave will affect parts of south and east India until the end of the week, including four states that are voting on Friday.
Parts of West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka are among 13 states and union territories voting in the second phase of India’s mammoth elections, with temperatures forecast to exceed 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in some areas.
On Thursday, Baripada in the eastern state of Odisha hit 43.6 C (110.4 F) and Telangana’s Khammam in the south reached 43.4 C (110.1 F), according to the IMD, which warned last month that India would likely see stronger and longer heat waves this year due to above-normal temperatures.
I don’t know why India doesn’t take climate change and pollution seriously…
Like, very few countries take it seriously enough. But China and India are feeling it more than almost any other country…
And they just don’t give a shit.
Because it’s a prisoners dilemma. They don’t have the money to suddenly buy a billion Teslas and trillion solar panels so either they burn the coal they have because everyone else is too, or they just give up trying to become an advanced economy while everyone else keeps polluting.
In either case tens of millions of people die on the subcontinent, but in one of them at least they get to improve their economy.
Why buy Teslas when BYD is cheaper than ICE vehicles?
And China’s solar panels are cheap as fuck.
Americans can’t buy either tho, but that’s because both our parties want corporations headquartered here to make those sales so it counts to GDP.
I don’t think India does that
BYD is made by their enemy? It isn’t hard to figure out why they wouldn’t want to buy things from a hostile country.
I don’t know if that was a question or rhetorical…
But either way you’re wrong.
That doesn’t refute anything I said. How weird.
Do you think India and China are buddies?
Sound like they’re buying them…
BYD fell well short of its previously declared sales target of 15,000 units for CY2023, but still managed to outpace every other brand operating in the Rs 30 lakh to Rs 70 lakh price bracket.
Edit:
Oh…
You’re a mod of a conservative community…
That explains so much
and?
Tata is selling more. You keep trying to cite one specific range as proof BYD is dominating the market. Tata is selling more overall.
https://mnre.gov.in/solar-overview/
India has achieved 5th rank in the world in solar power deployment. As on 30-06-2023, solar projects of capacity of 70.10 GW have been commissioned in the country. The capacity of 70.10 GW includes 57.22 GW from ground-mounted solar projects, 10.37 GW from rooftop solar projects, and 2.51 GW from off-grid solar projects.
Off topic, but what car is that and where do I get one?
Hindustan Ambassador, unfortunately no longer in production.
I’m totally adding that to my list of dream cars.
