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.

We all know how much efforts have been put into bringing electric buses in India. Now as a result of which we are slowly starting to see the positive changes and impacts of these efforts as there are many electric buses running in different Indian cities and states with their own special business model, battery and technology characteristics, operators, etc.

Electric mobility is no longer a want, but a necessity for decarbonizing the urban transport sector. Meeting India’s electric mobility goals requires a mix of battery swapping and charging infrastructure, increased in-house production of sub-systems, enhanced revenue sources, rebalancing of expenditures within state and city budgets and fare adjustment.

In its project update from May 2020 the Integrated and Sustainable Urban Transport Systems for Smart Cities in India (Smart SUT) reports on its national activities. The project is implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) and funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

The Ministry of Power has proposed a new set of rules for the rights of consumers and prosumers. The draft rules specify a common minimum standard of performance for the utilities across the nation, with an objective to provide consumers with better services.

This review provides the state-wise energy charges and demand charges for EV charging at public charging stations along with a comparison of the EV tariffs with residential (i.e. subsidised category) and commercial tariffs (i.e. nonsubsidised category) of those states. 

The rapid rise of technology interventions across the computing and telecommunications space has digitised our world and transformed our personal and professional lives significantly. We are now witnessing a revolution in global energy systems built on the foundation of fossil fuels similar to the Industrial Revolution.

The virtual kick-off event of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC)- Transport Initiative for Asia (TIA)– India Component was Streamed live on Aug 27, 2020. The event started with the Keynote addresses by Mr Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog and Dr Karsten Sach, Director General IK, International and European Policy, Climate Policy, BMU. In addition, Ms Corinna Küsel, Director South Asia, GIZ and, Mr Stephan Grabherr, Deputy Ambassador, German Embassy also delivered their remarks on the NDC-TIA Project. This online kick-off event revealed the NDC-TIA India component objectives and planned activities to relevant stakeholders.

In this "Comments and Suggestions on Finalized Draft on “Specific Requirements for Electric Power Train of Vehicles” document, AEEE expressed its views on the safety concern that the draft does not take into consideration. 

In his inaugural address, Dr Winfried Damm, Head of Indo-German Energy Programme, GIZ, said, “Lifetime and ownership costs of EVs are coming down fast coupled with increase in number of EVs, especially in developed nations.