Non-fiscal incentives crucial for EV adoption, say experts
New Delhi, Aug. 26 -- Even in Norway - hailed as the world's model for EV adoption - resistance came not from policymakers but from neighbourhoods, where housing associations blocked residents from installing chargers in shared complexes. A legal intervention in 2017 mandating the right to home charging proved pivotal in breaking that deadlock, according to Markus Rotevan of the Norwegian EV Association.
Meanwhile, an analysis by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) has found that while 32 of India's 36 states and Union territories now have an EV policy in place, only half have taken the crucial step of revising building byelaws to mandate EV charging points in new constructions.
India has set itself the ambitious goal o...
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