This report introduces city managers to the basics of electric mobility including different types of electric vehicles (EVs) and charging infrastructure.

India has witnessed remarkable growth over the last few decades, however, the mobility infrastructure has not kept pace with the demand.

A confluence of new technology trends and business models, is bringing about fundamental changes in the global mobility landscape. Ensuring sustainable and efficient mobility of people and goods, particularly in an increasingly urbanizing scenario, is one of India’s key challenges.

India has a vision of 100% electric vehicles by 2030, while around 40-45% EV conversion by 2030 is a realistic expectation. The Indian EV Industry is in its nascent stages with only 2 electric car manufacturers, about 10+ players in 2 Wheelers and 3-4 OEM’s in Electric buses.

In the context of rising urban population in India, even now three fourth of population still residing in rural hamlets with not so efficient mobility systems. Their socioeconomic development needs look forward to advancing this mobility vision and strategy.

India is at an inflection point in the development of its mobility system. Indian cities are currently witnessing increasing ownership of private vehicles and decreasing use of public and non-motorized transport.

Since the first HLPF (High-level Political Forum in 2016, the SLoCaT continued to track the references to transport in the 47 VNRs submitted to HLPF in 2018.

This report discusses the real-world performance data of low-carbon buses in the People’s Republic of China.

Shenzhen is the only city in the world where all the public buses are electric. During the period from 2011 to 2017, they replaced all the diesel buses with electric buses. There are 16359 electric buses in operation in Shenzhen City. Significance of this number is to be viewed from the perspective that in 2017, there were only 956 electric buses in entire Europe and less than 500 in entire United States.

This report examines the major trends affecting the transformation of energy and mobility systems, with a special focus on cities. Topics addressed include: electrification, decentralization and digitalization of the energy system, along with the shift towards electric, shared and autonomous mobility.