EV

India’s electric vehicle revolution is roaring ahead at breakneck speed, but a critical bottleneck threatens to stall the entire transition before it truly takes off. More than 5.8 million electric vehicles are now registered nationwide by 2025, with EVs capturing 8% of new vehicle registrations—a staggering leap from just 0.01% a decade earlier when electric […]

India’s clean mobility revolution has collided with international trade law, triggering a diplomatic and economic confrontation that could reshape regional manufacturing dynamics for years. China has formally lodged objections at the World Trade Organisation against India‘s ambitious electric vehicle subsidy schemes, alleging discriminatory practices and trade violations. India’s Production Linked Incentive programmes and related policies

India reached nearly 390 million registered vehicles by early 2025—creating an air pollution catastrophe where vehicular emissions choke cities, particularly during winter months. Now, electric vehicles are actually reversing that damage on a measurable scale rather than merely slowing pollution growth rates, as traditional policies achieved. Over one million EV units sold in FY24-25 eliminated

India’s electric vehicle industry crossed a threshold that most emerging markets never reach—it stopped being an assembly line for imported designs and became an innovation centre. The sector, valued at over ₹26,000 crore in 2022, is projected to cross ₹12 lakh crore by 2030, representing an unprecedented transformation beyond mere growth. This isn’t about assembling

China controls 70% of global electric vehicle production—and has just filed a World Trade Organization complaint because India dared to build its own EV industry. Beijing’s October 20th, 2025 filing marks its first trade confrontation with India in nearly a decade, targeting India’s Production Linked Incentive schemes. These programmes—totalling over ₹44,000 crore—aim to accelerate domestic

India’s electric vehicle revolution looks impressive on paper—1.96 million EV registered in fiscal 2024-25 represents a solid 17% increase over the previous year. But dig deeper into the numbers, and a more complex story emerges about infrastructure challenges threatening to derail this momentum. As one YouTube channel analyst recently observed, “India’s EV dream is real,