Author name: Ananta Kar

There is a revealing irony at the heart of India’s clean mobility push. The government has committed ₹10,000 crore under FAME-III, launched a ₹11,000 crore PM E-Drive Scheme, and staked the credibility of its Viksit Bharat narrative on electric vehicles — and yet consumer surveys consistently show that only 5% of prospective buyers intend to […]

India’s electric vehicle revolution has a fundamental problem, and it has nothing to do with technology. The batteries are improving, the designs are maturing, and the policy intent is genuinely ambitious. Yet for the daily commuter in Bareilly or the smallholder farmer eyeing a two-wheeler in rural Bihar, the arithmetic simply does not add up.

India’s electric vehicle ambitions are colliding headlong with a crisis that no amount of subsidy can paper over. With the government eyeing 30% EV penetration by 2030 and FAME-III committing ₹10,000 crore to accelerate adoption, the uncomfortable truth is that the after-sales ecosystem — the unglamorous backbone of any automotive market — remains dangerously underdeveloped.

Your electric car charges overnight whilst you sleep. So do your neighbour’s. And the entire apartment complex’s. And every vehicle across Delhi-NCR simultaneously drawing power from a grid already stretched to capacity. India’s electric vehicle revolution targeting 30 per cent market penetration by 2030 faces a stark infrastructure reality: charging demand could surge by 100

The global electric vehicle revolution just hit its first speed bump. After years of relentless growth that saw manufacturers commit hundreds of billions to electrification, global electric vehicle registrations—a reliable proxy for sales—contracted 3% year-on-year to 1.2 million units in January 2026 according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence data, hammered by China‘s new purchase tax and