In this video, Megha Kumar outlines several decarbonization strategies and how they could reduce CO2 emissions from road transport in India by 2050. The chart shows the kinds of reductions that are possible with more ambitious and aggressive transport policy.

ICCT is currently undertaking an analysis of the key transport energy and emissions models for India that have been developed by research organizations with well-established modeling frameworks.

It’s not hard to predict that if India continues as is, it will mean an unabated rise in vehicular activity.

The focus here is on the scenarios that incorporate policy interventions that could help decarbonize the sector. Besides the Business-As-Usual (BAU), there were typically two kinds of alternate scenarios incorporated in the models we analyzed: the Moderate effort and the High Ambition. 

ICCT and IEA’s High Ambition scenarios expect the light-duty vehicle segment or cars to electrify following two- and three-wheelers.

There are many policy avenues that remain unexplored from a decarbonization perspective. Many of the models don’t incorporate the entire set of emission reduction strategies already commonly employed, and thus these in no way set a boundary as far as what India can achieve.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) urged nations to increase the ambition of their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). India’s current NDC includes an economy-wide emissions reduction target and it is 2 °C compatible.

This article reviews the evolutions and challenges of (i) state-of-the-art battery technologies and (ii) state-of-the-art battery management technologies for hybrid and pure EVs.

This paper compares the test methods for critical parameters in this specification with those used in the United States and Japan.

Electric vehicles (EVs) have the potential to reduce transportation-related emissions while simultaneously delivering a variety of services to the power system, including resilience during power outages.