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  India's EV Policy The NITI Aayog, India's policy think-tank, has given several suggestions to the Government of India with respect to EVs. Accordingly, the following policy has been enacted: Reduce primary oil consumption in transportation. Facilitate customer adoption of electric and clean energy vehicles. Encourage cutting  edge  technology in India through adoption, adaptation, and research and development. Improve transportation used by the common man for personal and goods transportation. Reduce pollution in cities. Create EV manufacturing capacity that is of global scale and competitiveness. Facilitate employment growth in a sun-rise sector Government adopted the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and EV (FAME) scheme in 2015, with an allocation of Rs. 895cr, which provided subsidies for e-2Ws, e-3Ws, hybrid and e-cars and buses. The FAME II scheme, which came into effect from April 2019, had a proposed spending of Rs. 10,000cr. It was to be used for upf...

   Most of us, like many other inventions, had not heard about cars powered by electricity before. If one would tell us about electric vehicles becoming the future of mobility probably a decade ago, we perhaps would not believe it. However, it's turned into a reality now.  E-vehicles are sitting in the driver's seat and driving the Automobile sector towards growth. Vehicle electrification: a brief history Electric Vehicles or EVs, as they are commonly called, are vehicles which run on electric power, either partly or fully. EVs are environment-friendly and have low running costs due to lesser moving parts. Surprisingly, the concept of EVs is older than Internal Combustion Engines (ICEs). Scottish inventor Robert Anderson created the first electric carriage in the 1830s.  Its battery wasn't rechargeable and required replacement every time it ran out. However, electric-powered continued to be in use in USA and some parts of Europe. New York had a fleet of electric tax...