Electric vehicles to command India’s transportation future?

In a recent report titled ‘India Leaps Ahead: Transformative Mobility Solutions for All’, the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog has stressed on India’s potential to save up to 64 per cent of passenger mobility related energy demand, and 37 per cent of carbon emissions by 2030 by adopting electric and connected vehicles. The report, jointly published with Rocky Mountain Institute, has pegged India’s potential to reduce annual diesel and petrol consumption at 156 million tonnes by 2030 by adopting electric and connected vehicles. The report is said to also mention that Rs 3.9 lakh crore can be saved per year by adopting shared, electric and connected mobility. NITI Aayog CEO, Amitabh Kant, drew attention to battery costs reducing by half in every five years or so.