Kathmandu, May 13 -- Electric vehicles (EVs) now account for nearly 80 percent of newly imported four-wheeler passenger vehicles in Nepal, but weak infrastructure, limited charging facilities, battery-related concerns and a shortage of skilled manpower continue to pose major challenges to the country's e-mobility transition, according to a government study.

The report titled "Required Policy, Law and Institutional Provision, Current Situation, Opportunity, Challenges and Possibility on the Promotion of EV in Nepal", was prepared by the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport.

It states that Nepal's poor road conditions remain one of the biggest obstacles to EV adoption. The International Roughness Index, which measures road su...