Uber, Ola go slow on electric mobility drive as charging infra a concern

There is also lack of mandate from the government on adoption of electric mobility after ambitious talks of moving all new automobile sales to electric by 2030

The grand electric mobility plans of cab aggregators Uber and Ola have taken a back seat with charging infrastructure remaining a bottleneck. The government has also failed to issue a mandate on the adoption of electric mobility after its ambitious talks of a full-fledged shift to electric vehicles (EVs) by 2030. Over the past one month, the government has dropped plans of introducing an EV policy and has started work on an automobile policy that does not specify any EV targets.

Global taxi aggregator Uber partnered Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) in November last year to deploy ‘hundreds of EVs in Delhi