The state electricity regulatory commissions will fix tariffs for electricity supply from distribution companies to the charging stations at a ceiling of 15% over the average cost of supply

Electric car sales in fiscal 2018 declined 40 per cent - just 1,200 units, even as the government is pushing for at least a third of all new car sales by 2030 to be EVs.

The green number plate on EVs has numbers in white font for private vehicles, and in yellow font for commercial vehicles and cabs.

Country's largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki India, on Friday unveiled its first electric vehicle prototype and said  that it will commence a nation-wide fleet testing of EV prototypes.

Scaling up efforts to push eco-friendly transportation in the country, the government has decided to do away with permits for electric vehicles (EVs) and those that run on alternative fuels.

Vehicles using electricity or ethanol, biodiesel, CNG, methanol and biofuel need not apply for permits, said Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari.

Under phase 2 of the FAME scheme, the government expects to see an eight-fold increase in the sale of EVs.

Global factors behind rupee fall, no need for knee-jerk reaction: JaitleyFinance Minister Arun Jaitley yesterday attributed the fall in rupee to global factors and said there was no need for panic or knee-jerk reactions. He said the Reserve Bank is doing whatever is necessary to deal with the situation.The battered rupee has lost 165 paise in the last six trading sessions. Jaitley further said the dollar has strengthened against almost every other currency and added that the rupee...

Since October 2017, General Motors has launched three new EV cars -- the Buick Velite 6 EV, Baojun E200 and Cadillac CT6 Plug-In -- for China.

The current decision is in contrast with the Centre's earlier stance of avoiding the additional financial burden that the government would incur in incentivising buyers under the second phase of the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles (FAME-II) scheme.

India's electric vehicles subsidy policy, Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles, is being revived; WhatsApp has turned down government's demand to provide it with a solution to track origin of messages on its platform; and the rupee has slipped below the 70-mark against the dollar to close at 69.81. BusinessToday.In Editor Rajeev Dubey explains this and more on The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

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The Centre is preparing a fresh policy for promoting EVs that will first look at creating favourable ecosystems in nine polluted cities with a population of over four million.

The maker of Reva, India's first electric car, Chetan Maini and Uday Khemka's SUN Mobility has joined hands with American tech giant Microsoft to build a smart network to effectively deploy its universal energy infrastructure.