The Greener The Cheaper

Electric cars are encouraged to be present in this country, because they are considered cleaner and this is indeed important for our emission reduction target, which must reach 29% of Business As Usual by 2030.

What you need to realize is that how clean this electric car is can not be separated from how clean the electricity used to charge the battery is.

In Indonesia, where about 85% of electricity is still from fossil fuels, the electric cars that we will use will only reduce emissions by about 50% of the emissions of cars that use fossil fuels.

As an illustration, a petrol car in the 200’s HP class requires about 12 liters of gasoline per 100 km of travel. Electric cars of the same class need around 15 KWh of electricity for 100 km. The gasoline fuel emits about 27 kg of CO2, which uses electricity emits about 13.5 kg of CO2 from the electric power it uses.

But there are ways to get the emissions of electric cars close to zero. That is, if the electricity we use to charge the battery has zero emissions or is carbon neutral. Solar energy can be considered zero emission — while drop-in biofuels are categorized as carbon neutral, emissions released during combustion are offset by CO2 that plants absorb when they grow and produce.

Zero emissions from solar energy or carbon neutral from drop-in biofuels or for diesel also called green diesel — is not only greener, but also cheaper in the Net Zero era. Because the cost of electricity for your electric car — as far as using Green Electricity from solar energy or from a 100% green diesel generator set, you will be able to get enough carbon credit to pay those electricity bills.

Other people can make their electric cars, but we can make them greener. While this exercise will be tested for industrial electricity solutions first, those who are interested can contact us for details.