ABSTRACT
Electric vehicles (EVs) hold promise as clean technology alternatives that could offer immediate benefits of improved air quality, improved energy security and CO2 emissions mitigation in the long term as electricity gets decarbonised. EVs have been supported in India through policies at national and state level. EVs also find a prominent mention in India’s ‘Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions intensity of GDP by 33–35 per cent by 2030.
India is a large market for EVs after China, and therefore there is a growing interest in India’'s EV market. The chapter traces the evolution of policies for EVs in India and the results achieved so far to understand what has worked and what more needs to be done. A policy framework for EVs that can be used for calibration of EV policies to achieve multiple objectives is proposed.
