"The future is here" is a shared sentiment of Indonesians, who are proud of the government's plan to develop electric vehicles (EVs).

In 2015 and 2016, the international community made a series of global commitments, which provide a clear vision of what sustainable transport looks like: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the New Urban Agenda at Habitat III, the Brasilia Declaration on road safety, and the Ashgabat Declaration.

This factsheet focuses on new passenger car registrations of category M1. Electric vehicles here include battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric, and fuel cell vehicles. Light commercial vehicles are not included.

As policymakers and stakeholders in India begin the regulatory development process for fuel efficiency standards for new heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs), one of the key areas of debate has been whether or not separate performance standards for engines are an appropriate first step.

Following the submission of the Saumitra Chaudhari committee report on Auto Fuel Vision and Policy, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG) has been considering the possibility of leapfrogging from Bharat Stage (BS) IV emission standards to BS VI emission standards.

The virtual round-table discussion had experts from various stakeholder categories who shared insights on operational planning for EV integration in city distribution networks.

New car registrations continued to increase in July, going from 1.1 million in June 2020 to almost 1.3 million in July 2020—about the same level as in July 2019.

In June 2020, new car registrations in Europe (1.1 million) returned to pre-COVID-19 levels of January and February 2020.

As COVID-19 confinement measures were eased in most European markets, new car registrations more than doubled in May. 

With COVID-19 confinement, April 2020 new car registrations dropped by 79% across Europe compared to April 2019.