Electric vehicles are soon going to be the norm. For developing economies two-wheelers are going to be the mainstay for the EV industry. Many start-ups have entered the space and are working on disrupting the economy. Some companies are selling these two-wheelers, while many others are using them for shared mobility services. However, for the price advantage and manufacturing experience almost all companies have to look towards China for sourcing the components for these vehi

Within one week of PM Narendra Modi mentioning that the Government wants to make India a world leader in Electric vehicles at the Global Business Summit, 2019, the government published a press release announcing that the much anticipated and talked about scheme, Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicle (FAME II), is finally approved by the cabinet. Against the earlier expectations that the value of the incentives would range around INR 5500 cr (~USD 770 mn), the

China has been the biggest market as well as the biggest manufacturer of electric vehicles for around one decade. To achieve and sustain this leading position, China had taken a slew of measures at policy as well infrastructure levels. Strong policies, such as credit scores for OEMs, technology-based subsidies and state-owned charging infrastructure, have come to fruition and led to the high growth rates of EV adoption in China. Kedar Soman from PlugIndia caught up with our C

Two wheelers and three wheelers are the two vehicle categories that are getting electrified in India first. Recently, the 8th edition of EV Expo in New Delhi also had players in 2W, 3W and battery tech category as its brightest shining expo stars. Exciting two wheeler Indian startups like Ather Energy, Twenty Two Motors, Ultraviolette, have invested millions in the R&D and also many years into developing their first mass-production-ready products. Locally imagined products ha