{"id":21616,"date":"2019-03-04T11:45:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T06:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenworldinvestor.com\/?p=21616"},"modified":"2019-03-04T11:45:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T06:15:01","slug":"why-india-needs-to-drive-an-all-electric-scooter-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/2019\/03\/04\/why-india-needs-to-drive-an-all-electric-scooter-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Why India Needs to Drive an All-Electric Scooter Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">An All-Electric Two-Wheeler Market in India<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lately, there has been a lot of buzz around electric vehicles in India. Many large automobile companies like Maruti and Mahindra are looking at launching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenworldinvestor.com\/2019\/02\/21\/will-you-buy-maruti-wagon-r-electric-car-at-rs-7-lakhs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>affordable electric motor cars<\/strong><\/a> to please the larger masses in India. The company is also introducing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenworldinvestor.com\/2019\/02\/27\/mahindra-set-to-uber-ize-the-indian-cities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared mobility using an all-electric vehicle<\/a> fleet in the country. But\u00a0in order to drive mass adoption of electric vehicles in India, we need to focus on the two-wheeler segment, as the two-wheeler category accounts for nearly 75% of the overall transportation fleet in the country. <strong>India is the world\u2019s largest two-wheeler market<\/strong>\u00a0with more than 20 million vehicles being sold every year.\u00a0The country is expected to witness volume growth in its domestic two-wheeler market. The total <em>cost of owning and operating electric two-wheelers would be about Rs. 2 per km by\u00a02020<\/em>, as per BNEF.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">China is already witnessing the two-wheeler electric drive, which has already accounted\u00a0for the reduction of almost 80%\u00a0of the total carbon dioxide emissions saved by EVs worldwide. India could also follow the Chinese success story in building an <strong>all-electric two-wheeler market<\/strong>. The Chinese have exempted electric two-wheelers from registration and requirement of a driving license, which has significantly driven electric two-wheeler adoption in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenworldinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Hero-Electric-scooters1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20067\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenworldinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Hero-Electric-scooters1-300x216.png\" alt=\"Hero Electric scooters\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Also, read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenworldinvestor.com\/2017\/04\/07\/best-electric-scooters-bikes-companies-in-india-market-price-models\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Best Electric Scooters<\/a>\u00a0In India<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is expected that India could <em>forego\u00a0about 15% of the total transportation emission<\/em> by adopting this mechanism. Did you know that the <strong><em>electric scooter is around 4-6 times more efficient than a petrol scooter<\/em><\/strong>? The\u00a0batteries and electric motors used in electric vehicles make it more efficient than petrol engines. The <strong><em>cost of running and maintenance is also lower for an electric scooter<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0A normal scooter operates at about Rs. 70\u2013100 per 100 km. An electric two-wheeler would cost about Rs. 10\u201330 per 100 km (with an electricity price of Rs. 3-6 per unit). The cost of owning and\u00a0operating electric two-wheelers should further fall to Rs. 1.5 or even lower per km by 2025.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, high battery cost,\u00a0the absence of an adequate number of charging infrastructure and slow battery charging are the main challenges that the electric two-wheelers face today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An All-Electric Two-Wheeler Market in India Lately, there has been a lot of buzz around electric vehicles in India. 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