Rs. 11,000 total service cost for 63,000 kms, reports a Mahindra BE6 owner.
These are insanely cheap service cost numbers after driving 63,000 kms in just one year.
Rs. 12k for 63k means less than 20 paise/km maintenance cost. And this includes 5k for some suspension related repairs.
If you leave repair costs aside, actual maintenance cost falls to 7k, which is about 9 paise per km.
But there's an elephant in the room: Tyres.
In just 63k, tyres have already been replaced once (at just 25k), and the second replacement is likely to happen soon. This means about 80k expense, and another 80k to come. This means 160k plus 7k. 167k for 65k means about 2.5-2.6 rupees of maintenance cost per km.
This is the price you pay for a high performance EV that delivers instant torque: tyre wear, and the associated tyre replacement costs.
EV owners who drive high performance EVs must factor this.
Typically, a regular diesel SUV tyre - say of the XUV 7X0 will deliver about 70-80k of tyre life. Tyres of powerful EV will last half as much.
But the likes of the Tiago.EV, Punch.EV should do better in terms of longevity as they deal with a lot less torque. And run harder compounds.
To sum it up, EVs are super cheap to run when charged at home mainly but tyres will be a major cost.
@CarToq
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Sunil Shetty revealed that his 15‑month‑old granddaughter has a picture of Narendra Modi in a book next to Sai Baba. She performs Modi’s pooja, even offering laddus to his photo from a Ganesh Ji mandir because he is seen as divine. This shows just how far Bollywood has fallen
Ladka jail mein hai aur ye dukaan pe jaake interviews de raha hai. Ye toh honourary baniya hai. Siya Goel should have tried a bit more convincing her parents before deleting Agrawal
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You will see a lot of marketing tantrums from Whatsapp now!
Cred was more of marketing + Game/Gambling company.
Only time can tell whether Zuck got scammed or not!
I am not very hopeful after Freecharge and Cred 😌
Been exactly a year since we launched water purifiers
We now have TDS data from tens of thousands of Atomberg water purifiers installed across the country
And we combined that with publicly available data from different government sources like central pollution control board, jal jeevan mission and central ground water board
And built a free tool where you can enter your pincode and check your water quality- TDS levels, TDS variance, chemicals present etc
Interesting how India’s startup ecosystem loves packaging privilege as resilience.
When first-generation founders fail, they lose homes, savings, family peace, sometimes years of life.
When legacy founders fail after allegedly not paying vendors, somehow the next chapter becomes a ‘gutsy comeback story’.
PR really is magical.
I don't know if it's just me, but every time I visit a foreign country, I feel like moving there. Even though I have a very comfortable life in India, I still get that strong urge.
But the grass always seems greener on the other side.
Once you talk to people actually living there, you realize how expensive everything is. A car that costs ₹10 lakh in India can easily cost over ₹1.5 crore in Singapore because of the COE and other fees. Education in private schools can cost at least ₹3 lakh per month per child, as government schools often don't have enough slots for foreigners. If you're buying a house, foreigners have to pay a stamp duty of 65% !!.
Medical facilities are also extremely expensive. Insurance covers most situations, but if something falls outside your coverage, for example, a normal maternity delivery, which is often not covered, you could be looking at a massive bill. Atleast 10X of best hospitals in India.
The urge to move abroad suddenly starts fading once you hear all of the above. 😄
Every country has its pros and cons. We usually see the pros when we're visiting and the cons when we're living there.
Indian telecom Reliance is sabotaging access to Telegram for millions of users OUTSIDE India (including the UAE) via a rogue method called BGP hijacking.
The sabotage seems intentional, as Reliance has ignored multiple reports.
This may be part of a competitive war, as Reliance is partially owned by Meta — the company behind WhatsApp.
Network operators are advised to reject unauthorized BGP announcements from Reliance (AS18101) to prevent route hijacks and ensure stable Internet access for their users.
Such abuse of global Internet routing is alarming. I wouldn’t be surprised if Reliance/WhatsApp were also behind the recent lobbying effort to ban Telegram in India.
India’s IT ministry banned Telegram for one week because some users shared leaked exam questions.
This punishes 150M+ ordinary Telegram users in India — not the insiders who leaked the exam materials.
And the ban hasn't stopped anything. The leaks just moved to other apps.
𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 #𝐄𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝟐 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐬. : If INDIA truly wants to cut fuel import bills by Rs 3 lakh crores, all we have to do is build decent roads, proper infrastructure & remove encroachments. But contractors pay netas their cut money & encroachers who cause traffic jams are vote banks of netas. We are told ethanol is “good for the environment” but to produce 1 litre of ethanol it takes 2500-3500 litres of water at sugar mills or above 10,000 litres per litre at rice mills! This when the country is facing water shortage. How is this good for anyone except the netas? Most ethanol distilleries are owned by netas, for example Nitin Gadkari ji’s son! And please tell me how is Gadkari ji announcing ethanol policy when he is neither the Petroleum Minister, nor Agriculture Minister, nor Industry Minister? We the people pay full price for our vehicles + road tax + insurance + tolls + GST on spares… and in return we get pathetic roads, terrible infrastructure & now forced ethanol-blended fuel that kills mileage & damages engines. Meanwhile netas with direct conflict of interest are minting crores & crores and the poor hardworking honest INDIAN suffers as most Indian vehicles aren’t even E20 compatible yet Nitin Gadkari ji is forcing these ethanol norms on us as if we are lab rats!
#EthanolScam. #EthanolScam #GadkariEthanol #MiddleClassLoot
My cousin staying in BLR is married for 15 years and had decided early on to not have kids.
Carrying the DINK title in urban metros till 2020 was really cool (don’t know the status now).
And now, the couple in their early 40’s are not able to have kids, IVF is painful and scary and natural conception is just not possible at this age.
Boomers were absolutely correct with their timelines in life. Millennials have screwed it.
Let’s see what Gen Z’s do.
Meanwhile I have a 3 year old son, smart but extremely naughty.
I really don’t know how my wife and my life would’ve been without him.
Let certain things go as per nature.
Disclaimer:
1. To all the idiots claiming population pressure on the planet.
That is primarily because of dis balanced reproduction in certain parts of the world.
Your not having one/ two kids will neither add/ subtract that population growth.
Even if you don’t have kids, planet will still be burdened by population in some corner.
2. As for expenses, make your lifestyle choices wisely. Don’t upgrade it unnecessarily.
You have funds to do a vacation but not fund a child’s annual education is an extremely selfish reason.
Offer: I can plan your help expenses according to the number of kids you have and the city you live in. This service is free.
3. If you don’t want to have kids then don’t blame it on expensive education and high cost of upbringing.
Just say for “our selfish reasons.” Dont give useless reasons.
4. As for one person in a marriage, who doesn’t want to have kids, the other one should run immediately. Don’t suffer because of him/ her.
#peace #proudfather
Saying again and again, boycott the Auto industry altogether till the govt. and auto lobby kneels down. I just have two demands!
- Remove the lifecycle ban from vehicles. Fitness test should be mandated to remove the polluting vehicles instead of well maintained vehicles as well just because it's 10-15 years old.
- Different fuel types should be made available. A choice should be given to citizens.
Let's break their backbone! Together we can.