What Is The Future Of Electric Cars In India?

India’s focus on next-gen mobility has definitely taken on legs under the current government, Since then the
country has been willing to adopt a 360-degree approach in order to turn into an EV nation.

In December 2019, in the Climate Risk Index 2020 released by the environment think tank, Germanwatch, India’s
rank has worsened from the 14th spot in 2017 to 5th in 2018 in the global vulnerability ladder. This makes it all the
more reason for India to make electric cars and vehicles a priority in the fight against the reliance on fossil fuels.

What Are The Challenges In Consumer Adoption Of Electric

Cars?
Apart from this, there are a number of challenges in the adoption of electric vehicle cars in India in the near future.
These include:

Expensive

Lack of battery cell manufacturing.

Building charging infrastructure

Weather dependent

Will Electric Cars Gain Popularity In India?

In the last few years, trends suggest a rise in interest among the common masses for electric cars in
comparison to electric two-wheelers and ICE or petrol/diesel cars, as seen on Google Trends.
Akhil Aryan, CEO and cofounder ION Energy believes that timely adoption coupled with the
electrification of the existing vehicles and growth of charging infrastructure will create a shift, the impact
of which will be felt in metropolitan cities especially given that pollution has reached catastrophic levels .  
How Long Will it take to Switch To Electric Cars ?

According to media reports, currently EV market penetration is only 1% of the total vehicle sales in India,
and of that, 95% of sales are electric two-wheelers. While only 1,500 electric cars were sold for personal
use between April and December 2019, electric two-wheeler sales under FAME crashed by 94% in the
first six months of FY20.

“We would like to believe that mass adoption will not take more than 5 years,” said Singhal.

By-BRIJESH KUMAR, 2 nd YEAR

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