Government to focus on electric vehicles

New Delhi: Keen to give the desired push to electric mobility in the country, the NDA  Government plans to aggressively focus on finding solutions for developing indigenous technology for charging electric vehicles in the country. It aims to soon hold a grand challenge for innovators and start-ups to seek a home grown know-how for energising these new age automobiles. 

Currently on the global level there is no infrastructure for charging electric vehicles and most of the countries use the European, Japanese and American models of charging such vehicles.  While in India, the electric vehicle industry is in its infancy and therefore there is hardly any charging infrastructure available here, sources said that as of now the European model is being used, but the PMO is keen that in the long run India should become self sufficient.

The much hyped first ever Global Mobility Summit, which India is hosting on  September 7-8 , will be used as a brainstorming platform by innovators and entrepreneurs to come up with ideas for developing its own charging infrastructure, sources informed further.