Mention
Plugging Into The Futureedit
In the last few months, if there is one sector that has benefited from the largesse that policymakers can sometimes bestow on industries, it is the nascent electric vehicle (EV) industry in India. For long all that this industry got from the government was mere lip service even as the world moved ahead and charted a course. That has changed now.
Industry
Shift to EVs will be gradual; may account for 25-30% of vehicles by 2030edit
Speaking at an event to announce the launch of the Society for Smart E Mobility (SSEM), Radhakrishnan said that the State Government’s Electric Vehicle Policy has been finalised and will be announced in three weeks. The policy would cover both the supply and the demand side, besides supporting EV battery manufacture. He added that 100 electric buses are propsed to introduced in Coimbatore under the FAME II policy.
10 days on, EV charging station has one customeredit
The first electric vehicle (EV) charging station at the Indian Oil-owned petrol pump in Greater Noida, which was opened on August 23, has so far received a poor response. To promote e-mobility, the National Thermal Power Corpo- ration (NTPC) Limited and the Indian Oil Corporation together had commissioned the charging station, but only one transporter has visited the station till date for charging his vehicle. Station operators say some people, though, have visited the station and enquired about the facility.
International
UK car sales fall again but demand for electric vehicles surgesedit
British car sales dropped by an annual 1.6% in the low-sales month of August as demand for diesel models continued to fall but there was a 377.5% increase in registrations of battery electric vehicles, according to an industry body. Demand last month stood at 92,573 cars in Europe’s second-biggest autos market, according to data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).