Electric Vehicles

Promoting electric bike-taxis for clean transportation in India India has been and continues to be a proponent of Shared Mobility. The country has low penetration of cars and relies instead on public transit and intermediate public transport, two-wheelers, and increasingly on bike taxis for its daily travel needs, along with walking and cycling. With this context, India must turn its attention to the humble yet all-pervasive two-wheeler (2W) as a means of mass transportation. Deploying motorbikes as taxis or bike-taxis…

Targets in State Policies Need to Complement National EV Forecasts The electric automobile industry is growing at a rapid pace in India. Government policies (FAME-related), participation of start-ups in manufacturing, and the simultaneous growth in charging infrastructure has fuelled faster adoption of Electric automobile. A report by Government of India’s think-tank NITI Aayog, in partnership with Rocky Mountain Initiative (RMI) India, analyses that if FAME II and other measures are successful, India could realize EV sales penetration of 30% of…

Charging Stations – Requirement of more than 20 lakh on the anvil India is at the cusp of witnessing the most prominent transition in the automotive space – that of traditional Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) driven market to a new era of EVs. The pace of EV adoption, though slow, is steady. Post witnessing a small dip in sales in FY2021, the EV sales surged more than 200% in FY2022. In fact, FY2022 was the first year that witnessed EV…