Electric Vehicles

Battery Swapping Policy (2022) – Laying Groundwork for Future Battery Accessibility The Government of India allowed sales and registration of EVs without batteries in August 2020. The immediate outcome of this announcement is the reduction in upfront costs of an electric two-wheeler (E2W) and electric three-wheeler (E3W) as battery accounts for 30-40 percent of an electric vehicle’s cost. One of the other linked outcomes of this decision is the promotion battery swapping in India. Battery swapping is an alternative which…

Delhi Government To Mandate Conversion Of Vehicles By Aggregators To All-Electric By April 1, 2030 After announcing the subsidy on electric cycles, the state of Delhi has once again taken a pro-active step to increase the adoption of EVs with the announcement of the Delhi Motor Vehicle Aggregator Scheme on July 5, 2022. The draft scheme is intended for licensing and regulation of aggregators providing passenger transport services and for regulation of other delivery aggregators providing delivery service of goods…

Semiconductor Chip Shortage – Will it put brakes on India’s growing EV Momentum? The chip shortage globally since H2 2020 has been driven by chip hoarding by Chinese Companies, poor inventory planning by Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), logjams at ports, major chip factories being hit by natural disasters. Additional factors include COVID restrictions in Malaysia, a key chip assembly hub in the global semiconductor supply chain from where Indian automakers also have been procuring huge semiconductor supplies. As a result…