Electric Vehicles |
Highlights :
- Government allowed sale of EVs leaves manufacturers puzzled
- This is to make EVs more affordable
- Batteries account for almost half the cost of an EV
The road transport and highway ministry on Wednesday issued a notification allowing the sale of electric two and three wheelers without a pre fitted battery in order to make them more affordable.
However EVs maker are left confused by the announcement as finer details were left out of the announcement.
Batteries account for almost half the cost of an EV, making them vastly more expensive than a combustion engine vehicle of similar performance.
Manufacturer questioned that if EVs were sold without batteries how the subsidy under the Centre's EV adoption policy would be determined.
Under its Faster Adoption and Manufacture of Electric Vehicle (FAME) policy, the government incentivises the purchase of EVs by giving direct purchase subsidies linked to the capacity of the battery on the vehicle.
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