Electric vehicles information: Electric vehicles (EVs) represent a miniscule 0.8 per cent of the entire quantity of vehicles registered in the nation, regardless of the federal government pushing for greener vehicles since 2015. According to an official information, out of the entire barely over 34 crore vehicles registered with highway transport ministry’s e-vahan portal, as on July 14, 2023, solely over 27 lakh vehicles had been registered as electrical vehicles.
As many as 34,00,08,524 vehicles had been registered with the transport ministry until July 14. Out of these solely 27,44,019 had been registered as electrical vehicles. In different phrases, electric vehicles are solely 0.8 per cent of the entire vehicles registered in the nation.
Also, solely Delhi leads all Indian states in phrases of highest quantity of electric vehicles registered. Out of the entire 84,57,200 vehicles registered in Delhi, 2,29,305 or 2.71 per cent vehicles are electric.
Interestingly, other than Delhi, Assam and Tripura are the one two different states which have greater than 2 per cent electric vehicles out of the entire quantity of vehicles registered there, based on the transport ministry information.
While Assam has 2.16 per cent of electric vehicles out of the entire vehicles registered there, Tripura has 2.02 per cent vehicles registered below the electric vehicles class. For an over 27 lakh electric vehicles registered in the nation (as on July 14, 2023), there are solely 8,738 public charging stations, that are operational as on June 30, 2023.
In order to advertise the use of electric vehicles in the nation, authorities had launched the Faster Adoption and (*34*) of (Hybrid &) Electric Vehicles in India (FAME India) scheme in 2015 on pan India foundation.
Presently, phase-II of FAME India scheme is being carried out for a interval of 5 years from April 1, 2019 with a complete budgetary help of Rs 10,000 crores.
(With IANS inputs)
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