This article dealt with the initiative done by SMV Green Solutions. The company provides a safe and affordable transport alternative for last-mile mobility, or the last leg in a passenger’s journey, usually delivered by buses and auto-rickshaws.

This briefing, part one of a two-paper series, compares the market and technological characteristics of electric cars in China and the United States, based on 2015 and 2017 data.

In this paper, an overview of the existing literature on government incentives for the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is provided. Applied incentives and measures in the most important global automotive markets are determined, clustered and analyzed regarding their effectiveness.

In a bid to boost the EV sector in India, the Central government in April 2019 launched the second phase of FAME (Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid & Electric Vehicles), with a vision to change 30 per cent of automobiles sold in India to EVs by 2030.

The transportation system of the future is expected to meet the diverse needs of all citizens using clean technologies and shared services. These services will operate on optimised routes and schedules, in cities designed and regulated to support the efficient and safe movement of people.

What are the impacts of e-scooters on the environment, the climate, and transportation systems? How can e-scooters be operated in a manner that supports the needs of the municipality and its residents, or at least does not have negative impacts? And what are appropriate mechanisms to regulate e-scooters? To aid in answering these questions, this report provides a synthesis of the first, primarily international, experiences with shared e-scooters, describes the opportunities and challenges they bring with them, and offers recommendations for e-scooter planning and regulation in cities and towns both in Germany and beyond.

This paper presents models from psychology and sociology for understanding the motivation and process of behaviour change. What is common to all these models is the insight that behaviours change only when there is motivation, opportunity and capability. Simply supplying motivation by stressing the benefits such as saving time or improving the environment is not enough to change how people travel.

Battery modeling is an excellent way to predict and optimize some batteries’ basic parameters like state of charge, battery lifetime and charge/discharge characteristic.

The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), under the Ministry of Power (MoP), envisaged this study to address the challenges of the emerging electric mobility sector and identify possible solutions.

In this paper, Agora Verkehrswende, Agora Energiewende and Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) summarise the conclusions from a jointly commissioned analysis of distribution grid planning for the energy transition, with a focus on electromobility and offer wider considerations on the topic. The research was undertaken by contractors Navigant, Kompetenzzentrum Elektromobilität and RE-xpertise.