Electric two-wheelers: Road to a new mobility is dotted with speedbreakers

Apart from infrastructure and electricity needed to charge an electric vehicle, it is the readiness to accept a such vehicles which is said to be much lower in rural areas

India, the world’s biggest two-wheeler market by volume, must convert to the electric variant of these vehicles. After all, two-wheelers are said to account for 62 per cent of the petrol consumption in the country. One of the proponents of this change is R C Bhargava, chairman of the country’s largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki. Since the idea behind e-mobility is to reduce the ever increasing oil import bill, he said the focus should be on switching to electric two-wheelers, which are ‘low-hanging fruits’ and where conversion is much easier. 

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