New Delhi sources reported that while India is witnessing a growing interest in shifting to electric mobility, especially buses, experts feel that supporting infrastructure will have to keep pace with the growth in the number of such vehicles in the coming years.
Accordingly one of the reasons behind the growing interest is
the Centre’s initiatives to incentivize electric mobility. Presently under the
Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles (FAME)
scheme, the Centre subsidizes 60% of the total cost of an electric bus, and has
already sanctioned 390 buses in 11 cities.
Further the experts at a three-day ‘Connect Karo’ conclave organized
by World Resources Institute, India, however, said that with each bus costing
Rs 1.7 crore to 2.5 crore, the capital cost of inducting these vehicles in a
city’s public transport fleet was very high despite the subsidies
