In the context of rising urban population in India, even now three fourth of population still residing in rural hamlets with not so efficient mobility systems. Their socioeconomic development needs look forward to advancing this mobility vision and strategy.

A confluence of new technology trends and business models, is bringing about fundamental changes in the global mobility landscape. Ensuring sustainable and efficient mobility of people and goods, particularly in an increasingly urbanizing scenario, is one of India’s key challenges.

This report introduces city managers to the basics of electric mobility including different types of electric vehicles (EVs) and charging infrastructure.

By any measure, India’s electric vehicle (EV) aspirations are steep from where we stand today. As a market, India sells only a fraction of EVs annually as the aggregate two- and four-wheeler sales daily.

Leveraging electric mobility will bring multiple environmental and economic gains for India. Many recent developments toward sustainability in transport are being conducted to this belief such as advances in battery technologies, increasing energy density of batteries etc.

In India, there is growing interest among policymakers, planners, and regulators for aggressive electrification of passenger vehicles to battery electric vehicles (BEVs) by 2030.

India has witnessed remarkable growth over the last few decades, however, the mobility infrastructure has not kept pace with the demand.

India has two categories of electric cars, based on their range and battery capacity. The current Indian e-4W market is dominated by cars with a range of 100-200 km and a lower battery pack capacity. This study aims to facilitate the planning and establishment of public e-4W charging infrastructure in Indian cities.

Electrification of vehicles in India is still at its early stage. Both the battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plugin hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) only contribute to 0.06% of India's total car market through 2017.

This study addresses key technical challenges while integrating EV charging infrastructure in the electricity distribution network.