India

EV Samvaad is a compendium of electric mobility initiatives in India, covering the period from April 2023 to March 2024. It aims to monitor India’s electric vehicle (EV) landscape and decode policy interventions, implementation roadmaps, and industry-wide adoption plans.

This report assesses the potential of decarbonising heavy-duty trucks in India with zero-emission technologies, focusing on battery-electric technology. It presents a four-pillared roadmap for a transition to zero-emission trucks that addresses technology, infrastructure and operations, financing, and policy interventions for India.

This report sets the context of renewables (RE)—based EV charging, its need in India, concerned stakeholders, modes of RE procurement, and locations for RE-based EV charging in different businesses.

This new report assesses how China, India and Vietnam are translating their international climate ambition into national climate change-related transport strategies and policies.

This paper explores the role which women and gender-specific mobility behaviour play in the decarbonisation of the transport sector in Asia, based on a comparative analysis of inclusive low-carbon transport, related challenges and gender-integrative solutions in China, India and Vietnam.

The report is the first comprehensive, India-specific analysis of urban passenger transport using a life-cycle perspective.

This research publication conducts a detailed comparative analysis to assess various environmental performance of EV’s and ICEV’s (petrol, diesel and CNG) in the 3-Wheeler and 4-Wheeler vehicle segment across its entire life cycle. The study has been analysed using India-specific conditions.

The report serves as a guiding document for the new entities in the battery recycling ecosystem, identifying various stakeholders and their corresponding roles and responsibilities. For these stakeholders, the report discusses permissions required for setting up battery recycling/refurbishing facilities, risks and corresponding mitigation measures, and standard operating procedures for safe handling of batteries.

The publication reflects the recommendations shared by stakeholders for scaling up the adoption of electric buses in India. The panel discussions explored viable financing pathways for the procurement of e-buses in India.

The Microsoft-Excel-based tool ‘Financial Analysis of Charging station (FACt)’ has been developed to help build an understanding of the business case for rolling out public charging infrastructure for electric vehicles (EVs) in the Indian context. It is a flexible, transparent, and user-friendly solution to the problem of conducting a quick preliminary assessment of the financial justification for setting up a public charging station.

The conference proceeding includes recommendations from subject experts on the Battery Waste Management Rules 2022 and possible solutions to streamline End of Life (EoL) battery management. It also highlights the safety concerns regarding lithium-ion batteries and battery data management.

Based on interviews with NDC-TIA partners and other organizations working in India, this blog highlights the four lessons on accelerate the transition to zero-emission transport in India.

With information from interviews with 21 representatives from transit authorities and private bus operators, this report identifies key experiences and lessons from the electric bus rollouts in Mumbai, Pune, and Navi Mumbai and make specific recommendations based on international best practices.

The conference proceeding document reflects the views of the stakeholders (public and private) on the impact of the ongoing EV transition on the workforce of the automotive and transport industries and ways to ensure a just transition. The ‘Just Transition’ conference is hosted under the Forum for Decarbonising Transport.

This specific report is the third report in a series and it focuses on detailed documentation and analysis of EV charging infrastructure and its grid integration in Indian EV ecosystem.

This report investigates the complete value chain of motive/traction batteries used in electric vehicle applications.

This study focuses on the recycling ecosystem of batteries, conducting international review of Germany and rest of EU, California (US), China, Japan and South Africa.

The report on “Battery Swapping for Electric Two-Wheelers in India – Strategy Hinterlands” identifies solutions to battery swapping application on two-wheelers to aid in India’s EV transition.

This paper compares key assumptions, energy use, and CO2 emissions by vehicle and fuel type across eight road transport energy and emissions models for India.

World Resources Institute India (WRI India) hosted a webinar on ‘Safety Readiness of Electric Vehicle (EV) Batteries in India’ to raise awareness regarding the safety challenges of EV batteries and solutions to overcome them. This document highlights the insights shared by the panelists on the current safety concerns and the way forward for a safer EV battery ecosystem in India.

The Residential EV Charging Guidebook seeks to encourage all residential societies based out of Delhi to understand the importance of EV charging, support effective decision-making and set out the way forward for the planning and implementation of EV charging stations in the parking space of the societies.

The EV charging guidebook for shopping malls provides step-to-step guidance to mall owners on planning, installing, and managing electric vehicle charging at shopping mall(s) in Delhi.

This paper is a continuation of the series of working papers on the Indian LCV market, dating back to 2016. it focuses on the N1 (load-carrying LCVs) category of vehicles, which consists of mini trucks and pickups. It includes a brief comparison with the performance of the M1 (passenger cars) category of vehicles

This GIZ India-led report focuses on Electric Vehicles (EV) smart charging strategies and approaches, related policy and regulatory measures, technical aspects, grid integration of EVs, and the way forward for smooth EV adaption in the Indian EV ecosystem.

The Workplace EV Charging Guidebook provides step-wise guidance for employers on planning, installing, and managing electric vehicle charging at their workplace in Delhi.

This study analyzes fleet characteristics and compares the vehicle characteristics of major manufacturers and classes of new two-wheelers sold in India for the fiscal year 2020-2021.

Battery swapping is an innovative electric vehicle refueling model that can be used by vehicles with a detachable battery. This paper evaluates if electric two-wheelers in India with the battery-swapping option have achieved cost parity relative to electric two-wheelers with the point charging option and with conventional gasoline two-wheelers. The results in this working paper show that for all three use cases considered, the electric two-wheelers with point-charging and battery-swapping options are considerably cheaper than the gasoline two-wheeler.

Market analyses by vehicle segment, weight category, manufacturer, and engine size are needed to optimize vehicle emission standards and testing requirements. In India, these are largely adopted from Euro standards to fit the Indian landscape, and that was the case with the Bharat Stage (BS) VI regulations that took effect April 1, 2020. The heavy-duty vehicle market saw some big technology changes to meet the new standards, and this paper analyzes the first fiscal year (FY) 2020–21 of BS VI vehicle sales and the last year of sales under the previous BS IV standard, FY 2019–20.

The study focuses on EV charging infrastructure, related policy and regulatory measures, grid integration of EVs, and the way forward for smooth EV adaption in the Indian EV ecosystem. This specific report is the first in the series of four reports documenting the fundamentals of EV charging technology, standards, communication protocols, and grid integration of EVs with the distribution system.

The study focuses on EV charging infrastructure, related policy and regulatory measures, grid integration of EVs, and the way forward for smooth EV adaption in the Indian EV ecosystem. This specific report is the second in the series of four reports.