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What Can India Learn From China's Not-so-successful Progress Towards Electric Mobility?

UCD-ITS-RP-14-69

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Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways (STEPS)

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Suggested Citation:
Wan, Zheng, Yuche Chen, Yunshi Wang (2014) What Can India Learn From China's Not-so-successful Progress Towards Electric Mobility?. Current Science 107 (10), 1645 - 1646

India released its comprehensive National Electric Mobility Mission Plan (NEMMP2020) in 2013 with the ambition to deploy 5 to 7 million hybrid and electric vehicles (xEVs) by 2020. The large-scale use of xEVs in India could mean a decrease in fuel oil importation and mitigation of pollution caused by the transportation industry. In addition, the technological advantage presented by the manufacture of EVs is expected to be a new economic growth highlight for India. However, administrative policies such as NEMMP2020 do not automatically constitute a consolidated business model.