The transport sector is a significant and growing contributor to spiking air pollution in India. In 2015, transportation tailpipe emissions attributed to 1800 premature deaths in New Delhi. Recently, New Delhi announced its draft electric mobility policy. Electric mobility is considered a major opportunity to improve air quality in India. E-mobility solutions are essential for reducing emissions from the transport sector – both for air pollution and climate change.

The Bharat Stage (BS) VI emission standards announced in September 2016 with an ambitious deadline of April 1, 2020. India turned the challenge into an opportunity and completed its mission of producing BS VI-compliant fuel and vehicles on time, Coronavirus notwithstanding. All in all, this blogpost by ICCT explains how a seemingly impossible mission (fewer than five years ago) has been accomplished.

This blogpost by the ICCT highlights the study published in its working paper "Strategies for deploying zero-emission bus fleets: Development of real-world drive cycles to simulate zero-emission technologies along existing bus routes" in which a new methodology has been developed to identify representative drive cycles based on real-world bus performance data in Bangalore.

To counter the ill effects of fossil fuels, electric mobility is being seriously considered as an alternative to fuel the mobility needs of rapid urbanisation. India has pledged to reduce carbon intensity by 33-35% by 2030. According to statistics, more than 80% of the total vehicles in India comprise of 2Ws, unlike 4Ws in western countries.  This blog post by Blue circle staff highlights the refuelling issues of EVs and the advantages of battery swapping technologies.

This assessment analyzes the implications of a growing natural gas vehicle fleet on the emission benefits of the U.S. heavy-duty vehicle Phase 2.

This original research analyzes the actions that are impacting electric vehicle deployment across major U.S. metropolitan areas.

This study analyzes emerging light-duty electric vehicle technologies in terms of their performance characteristics and costs.

This paper evaluates Canada’s position in the emerging global electric vehicle industry by analyzing sales and production trends for conventional and electric vehicles and comparing these trends to similar auto markets around the world.

This working paper identifies metrics that cities can use to track charging infrastructure policies and deployment to support electrification goals in cities.

This research analyzes two pressing questions that are highly relevant across major U.S. cities, namely, quantifying how many electric ride-hail vehicles can be supported by a growing public charging infrastructure network and how many additional dedicated chargers could pave the way for a fully electric ride-hailing fleet.