Abstract:

India is one of the world’s growing economies and comes under the top five greenhouse gas (GHGs) emitters and working tirelessly to meet long-term objective of reducing GHGs emission by 33–35% from the 2005 level by 2030 by shifting to renewable energy and electric vehicles (EVs). The Government of India (GoI) is putting into effect a number of policies, schemes, and programmes to sway the market and promote EVs over conventional passenger vehicles, such as the establishment of EV manufacturing facilities, internal battery development, development of charging facilities at common public locations, subsidy on EV purchase, etc. This study was carried out to quantify India’s present trend in adopting EVs over conventional vehicles, benefits of switching to EVs and modification in other transport polices for reducing GHG emissions and major challenges in implementation of EV policies on ground. According to the report, simplicity among decision-makers, energy producers, manufacturers, and end users is necessary for e-mobility policy. In this paper, there is extensive discussion of the factors that influence and hinder the adoption of e-mobility.