NEW DELHI: Even as Delhi authorities’s Electric Vehicle Policy completes two years subsequent month, a brand new document has been created, with as many as 29,604 EVs having been bought in Delhi in 2022 until date. This is the very best ever annual determine, with greater than 5 months nonetheless left for the yr to finish.
The EVs bought in Delhi this yr already represent 18.6 per cent of all EVs registered within the capital until date. Sales first noticed a significant leap in 2016 with 21,690 EVs bought, in contrast with the three,565 registered a yr in the past. The quantity remained across the 20,000-mark, however the total dip in automobile gross sales in 2020 because of the Covid-19 outbreak noticed EV numbers, too, come all the way down to 12,381.
That yr, on August 7, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal launched the EV coverage with the goal of guaranteeing that 25 per cent of all new automobile registrations by 2024 have been of EVs. In August 2020, a complete of 739 EVs have been registered in Delhi and, from September 2020 to until date, 59,949 EVs have been bought within the metropolis. The determine is 37.8 per cent of the whole 1,58,578 EVs registered in Delhi until date.
The two years of the coverage will probably be celebrated on the 4th Delhi EV Forum, to be hosted by the Dialogue and Development Commission (DDC) on August 10, in collaboration with RMI India. A report on the coverage’s implementation will probably be offered and mentioned on the discussion board, the DDC mentioned in a press release. The authorities mentioned that it’s going to additionally launch a ‘Charging Infrastructure Action Plan for Delhi’ on the discussion board.
The authorities mentioned that the ‘Switch Delhi EV Awards’ will probably be offered to showcase and felicitate the leaders throughout 15 classes who’re constructing Delhi as India’s EV capital. It mentioned that in 2022, EV gross sales have been averaging near 10 per cent of the whole new automobile gross sales month-to-month, by far the very best in India, with March 2022 witnessing a excessive of 12.5 per cent. The present yr is witnessing greater than 144 EVs being registered every single day on common, in contrast with round 71 EVs bought per day on common final yr.
“Delhi’s emergence as the leading state in India in EV adoption is strongly rooted in consultation and discussion with experts and industry stakeholders,” Delhi’s transport minister Kailash Gahlot mentioned. “The Delhi government has been continuously incorporating the voices of the e-mobility ecosystem in the EV policy, and we will felicitate the stakeholders in the upcoming forum for their contributions towards making the Delhi EV policy an exemplary success so far,” he mentioned.
“Over the last two years, the platform of Delhi EV Forum has successfully brought together over 200 stakeholders and implemented the principle of participatory governance in Delhi’s journey toward becoming the EV capital of India,” vice chairperson, DDC Delhi Jasmine Shah mentioned
Source: auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com