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Innovation Outlook: Smart Charging for Electric Vehicles
2019
Author(s): International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Electric vehicles (EVs) hold the key to unleash synergies between clean transport and low-carbon electricity. Just as future transport must be increasingly electrified, future power systems must make maximum use of variable renewable energy sources.
Assessing Ride-Hailing Company Commitments to Electrification
2019
Author(s): Slowik P, Fedirko L, Lutsey N
This briefing assesses and summarizes electric vehicle adoption among five of the world’s largest ride-hailing companies i.e. Didi Chuxing (Didi), Grab, Lyft, Ola, and Uber. It discusses company-specific electric vehicle adoption, plans for future growth, and catalogues the unique actions that companies are exploring to promote electric ride-hailing on their platforms.
Comparison of Decarbonisation Strategies for India’s Land Transport Sector
2019
Author(s): Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP), Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), Integrated Research for Action and Development (IRADe), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
This report provides the results of an inter-model comparison exercise undertaken by five modelling teams to analyse the future growth of India’s transport sector and to evaluate the role of various transport sector policies in reducing transport related energy emissions in India.
Assessing the Environmental Benefits from Switching Autorickshaws in Chennai to Electric
2020
Author(s): Harikumar A, Thakur P, Pal S
This research highlights the bouquet of policy interventions suggested by TERI based on the results are 1) incentivizing scrapping of auto-rickshaws older than 15 years, 2) mandating scrapping, and 3) incentivizing the purchase of new LPG BS-VI auto-rickshaws.
The urban mobility landscape in India is rapidly evolving. Population growth, rising income levels, increasing motorisation and changing preferences are among the factors driving change in how people move in a city.
Assessing the Impacts of Vehicle Emissions and Safety Regulations
2019
Author(s): van Wee B
This paper discusses how regulations can determine environmental and safety outcomes in transport systems. It explores the relationships between regulations and direct and indirect costs, and between regulations and benefits. It also discusses the ethical issues, such as the fact that cost-benefit analysis evaluates welfare effects but tends to ignore equity issues.
E-Rickshaw Deployment in Indian Cities
2019
Author(s): Shandilya N, Saini V, Ghorpade Ashish R
This handbook is a comprehensive document which provides an overview of Electric Vehicle (EV) policies, subsidies, schemes, growth of e-rickshaws in cities.
This report captures baseline data, strategies adopted, pilot demonstration and handholding support provided to cities for implementation of projects under Smart City programme for the city of Udaipur.
City Report: Visakhapatnam
2019
Author(s): Balguri Dwarakanath S, Saini V, Ghorpade Ashish R
This report captures baseline data, strategies adopted, pilot demonstration and handholding support provided to cities for implementation of projects under Smart City programme for the city of Visakhapatnam.
This report captures baseline data, strategies adopted, pilot demonstration and handholding support provided to cities for implementation of projects under Smart City programme for the city of Ludhiana.