Civil engineering professors, climate researchers and transport specialists pushed for behavioural changes and not just structural changes at an event that laid out Delhi's EV roadmap.
We shouldn't treat the automotive industry like fast fashion. Although carmakers agree that emissions are a problem, manufacturing vehicles is a major problem too.
Speaking at a select media roundtable in Goa, Maruti Suzuki's Shashank Srivastava says EVs are projected to account for only about 17% of cumulative new vehicle sales in India by 2030.
The HPAL located in Pomalaa, Indonesia where Vale operates a nickel mine, is SAID to produce 120,000 tonnes a year of materiaL that is used in batteries for EVs.
Plans to set up a manufacturing plant & bolster existing infrastructure, says MD, president & CEO Atsushi Ogata. Aim is to achieve annual production capacity of 1 million by 2030.
Govt data shows electric taxis make up almost half of all the cabs registered in Delhi, up from 1.81% in 2018. Rising fuel costs, subsidies, better charging infra are driving trend.
Govt says digital payments also uplift under-served communities by providing them financial footprint that can be used to assess credit worthiness in absence of traditional documents.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
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