Archive for August, 2009
The $2500 Indian automobile Tata Nano will have a dezastruous impact for the environment. O masive growth of world’s auto market will make all the efforts so far to reduce the CO2 emissions worthless.
The launch of the famous Tata Nano, world’s cheapest car, was received with a lot of hope and enthusiasm in India and with a huge interest in the rest of the world. With a starting price of just $2500, Tata Nano is the most accesible car ever built by the car manufacturers. The only ones who weren’t happy about Tata Nano were the green people, the ecologists. They warned the streets, cities and environment will be suffocated by transports with personal vehicle.
For many, Tata Nano will represent for India what the famous T Model from Ford did a century ago for the ‘democracy’ of car transport in United States. It’s launching isn’t seen only as a big thing Tata Mators or auto industry did, but as a true victory of Indian nation.
Ecologically speaking though, the existance of Tata Nano is not cheap at all and her price will be paid by Indians and every one else. Nano is a car that brakes many safety norms and which ignores the current environment standards. The growth of personal vehicles will lead to traffic blocks that will be impossible to control and massive pollution.
To drop the production costs, Tata Motors sacrificed a lot of safety and quality norms, launching a car with a short life.
