“ There is no demand visibility for localisation of components. This hasa bearing on making EVs cost more.”
CV RAman, sr executive director (engineering), Maruti Suzuki
(This story appears in the 12 April, 2019 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)
If the government wants India to truly start adopting a green ecosystem and mobility they have to abolish all taxes and duties on anything that\'s related to electric vehicles or green manufacturing of vehicles.No tolls or dutys to be levied on electric vehicles at all no registration or road tax in any form no GST OR VAT OR ANY TAX new selling of diesel cars to be banned and levy all the taxes and dutys of the world on petrol new cars ...all ic powered old cars to be scraped compulsory after 10 years build public transportation like AC busses metro trains etc and cover all parts of the country with connectivity but most of all public transport to be powered by CNG or hybrid vehicles and charging infra every 10 Kms kits to be made available to install and convert any old vehicle to electric if these steps are followed it is guaranteed to take off without fail
on Apr 3, 2019