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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 Policy for EVs was announced in a bid to scale, promote and ..
Month: Current Affairs - February, 2022
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs - 2024 • Government Schemes Current Affairs
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. According to the report released by NITI Aayog, the financing market size ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2022
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs - 2024 • Reports & Indexes Current Affairs
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 rapidly growing production of electric vehicles, which use lithium-ion batteries. However, there ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2022
Category: International / World Current Affairs
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 fasten the adoption. About the Guidelines It allows the entities or individuals ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2022
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs - 2024
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 Under the legislation, all new homes and offices will be required to ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2021
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 out in August 2021 itself. E-cycles from Hero Lectro Cargo (HLC) will ..