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NITI Aayog Draft Battery Swapping Policy
NITI Aayog released a draft battery swapping policy on 21st April 2022. Under this policy, all metropolitan cities in the country having a population over 40 lakhs will...
National Highway for Electric Vehicle (NHEV)
National Highway for Electric Vehicle (NHEV) is an organization which aims at promoting electrification of India’s transportation systems. About NHEV NHEV by 2020 is 1st intercity e-mobility prototypical...
Battery swapping policy for EVs
On February 1, 2022, Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a “Battery swapping policy for EVs”, during Budget speech of 2022. Battery Swapping Policy for EVs The Battery Swapping...
Banking on electric Vehicles in India Report
The NITI Aayog has suggested including electric vehicles in the priority sector of lending guidelines of RBI. This will give a push to retail lending of electric vehicles....
Shortage of Lithium for EV batteries
Recently, the Serbian Government cancelled licenses for a major lithium project, which is owned by Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto Plc. Highlights Lithium is in hot demand because of... Standards for Charging Infrastructure for EV
The Ministry of Power recently released revised guidelines for electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The ministry has released these guidelines to increase the adoption of EVs and also to... England: First country to mandate new homes to install EV chargers
British government has announced to introduce legislation in 2021, under which all the newly built homes and offices will require to feature electric vehicle chargers in England. Highlights...
E-cycles for food delivery
Food delivery platform Swiggy is launching electric-cycles (E-cycles) in association with the Hero Lectro Cargo (HLC) in Hyderabad. Key Points Under the pilot project, e-cycles will be rolled... Maharashtra unveils new EV policy
Maharashtra government has unveiled the “Maharashtra Electric Vehicle (EV) policy, 2021”. Key Points Government also revealed its plans to attract EV manufacturing companies and allied businesses in State...
Global Electric Vehicle Outlook, 2021
The International Energy Agency recently released the Global Electric Vehicle Outlook. Key Findings of the report Three million new electric cars were registered in 2020. This was 41%...
Road Transport Ministry’s ‘Go Electric Campaign’
The Union Minister of Road, Transport & Highways, Nitin Gadkari, had launched the ‘Go Electric Campaign’ on February 19, 2021. Highlights This campaign was launched in order to...
