Business Standard

Battery-operated future

Strategic sourcing would be critical to ensure manufacturing competitiveness of EVs

Electric cars
Premium

The BNEF expects electric vehicles to comprise about 7 per cent of sales in India by 2030

Akshay Singhal
The Indian electric vehicles (EV) will see the entry of several new players in the two- and three-wheeler segments which between them constitute around 95 per cent of it. Chinese firms such as BYD Auto Co. Ltd will supply electric buses to some state transport firms and Mahindra, with an early mover’s advantage in the four-wheeler segment, plans to make 60,000 electric vehicles annually from 2020.

In 2012, the National Electric Mobility Mission Plan (NEMMP) 2020 was established, under which an incentive scheme, Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &) Electric Vehicles in India (FAME) was launched, to reduce the
Disclaimer: These are personal views of the writer. They do not necessarily reflect the opinion of www.business-standard.com or the Business Standard newspaper

What you get on BS Premium?

  • Unlock 30+ premium stories daily hand-picked by our editors, across devices on browser and app.
  • Pick your 5 favourite companies, get a daily email with all news updates on them.
  • Full access to our intuitive epaper - clip, save, share articles from any device; newspaper archives from 2006.
  • Preferential invites to Business Standard events.
  • Curated newsletters on markets, personal finance, policy & politics, start-ups, technology, and more.
VIEW ALL FAQs

Need More Information - write to us at assist@bsmail.in