The r-EV-olution in India
It’s been two years now that I have been using an EV (an electric bike, rather the first e-bike of India) and a lot has changed in the last two years in the electric mobility space which can be called a revolution. From the last couple of years, COVID 19 had adversely impacted the penetration of EVs in India and so the rEVoution which was supposed to take place by mid-2021 is visible now. The automotive industry is going through a transition switching to alternative and less energy-intensive options of mobility due to two reasons: first the rising fuel prices and then the environmental concern. I haven’t seen such excitement for electric vehicles as I am seeing right now. At the start of 2020, there were hardly any EVs on the Pune roads, whereas in 2022, I could see at least a dozen vehicles with green number plates plying on the same roads in Pune. However, there’s still a long way to go. EV demand got a fillip of late as fuel prices soared, making many buyers of conventional vehicles