Abstract:

The state government of Assam notified the Electric Vehicle (EV) Policy of Assam, 2021, which will be in effect over a five-year period until 2026. During this period, the policy aims to achieve 25 percent penetration of EVs in the total number of vehicle registrations. The policy also focuses on developing an enabling charging infrastructure to support the faster adoption of EVs across the state. 

The state government of Assam will support the deployment of the first 200,000 EVs either under commercial use or individual use over the next five years. The segment wise targets are as follows:

• Two-wheeler (2W) EVs – 100,000 units
• Three-wheeler (3W) EVs – 75,000 units
• Four-wheeler (4W) EVs – 25,000 units

The state government aims at converting 100 percent of the public transport bus fleet to electric buses by 2030. This is to accompany another ambitious target – phasing out all fossil fuel based commercial fleet, government vehicles, and logistics vehicles in all Assam cities by 2030.