Although Tata Nano is more environment friendly than Ford and the Chrysler, it would have been better if designed as an electric car. This was said by Prof Simon Boxall, who teaches Oceanography at the University of Southampton in the UK. Boxall was in the city to deliver a lecture on the 'Climate Change: From clues in the Arctic to the impacts in India' at the British Library on Monday.

He added "I understand the Nano is a car built for the masses. However, though it probably adds to the pollution levels only a quarter of what a small Ford or a Toyota adds; it's still producing CO2 (carbon dioxide) and is still using carbon fuels. Thus, if you get 10 Nanos to every Ford, which is going by the given population dynamics, we will derive at the number of Fords produced in 10 years and a million of Tata Nanos produced in a year. An Indian scientist last week had told me that technology is long way of for mass production of Nano as an electric or a hydrogen fuel car. However, I don't agree to that. I came across a news piece that said China is going for mass production of electric cars. Its plants will produce millions of electric cars every year. Therefore, I believe that if the people should demand for electric cars or the government should make it compulsory for manufacturers to make electric cars, which will start mass production of electric cars in India too."

Stating that India's human population will be most affected by climate change he said "The idea of this project is to spread the reach of awareness about the climate change. Scientists are great, but some times they are not very good at expressing themselves. Thus these people can have a real experience of our work there and communicate it better to the masses in their own medium."

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