Abstract:

India has a unique opportunity to establish a sustainable transportation system. The Central Government flagged off radical policy changes since 2018 to encourage the Electric Vehicles (EV) ecosystem, helping India move closer to delivering on the promise of e-mobility.

E-mobility is the gateway to more affordable, reliable, cleaner, and efficient transportation – enabling India to become an example for other nations. With this belief, Ola Mobility Institute (OMI) studied India’s first multimodal electric mobility project in Nagpur through a pilot in May 2017. The pilot focused primarily on ensuring usage of EVs - or simply put, clean kilometres travelled – to test the viability of EVs on economic metrics. The study found that the pilot required a broad set of actions. This report takes into account data points from all aspects of EV operations spread over 18 months of the Nagpur pilot providing a detailed overview of the study.