Chandigarh, Aug. 4 -- Incentives ranging from Rs.3,000 to Rs.2 lakh, along with zero registration fees and no road tax - all sops under UT's ambitious Electric Vehicle Policy, rolled out in 2022 - have failed to spark buyers' interest.

Three years since the policy's launch, electric vehicles (EVs) make up just 5.2% of the nearly 1.60 lakh vehicles sold in Chandigarh.

According to official data, 1,52,047 fuel-based vehicles were sold during this period, including 78,809 four-wheelers and 73,229 two-wheelers. In contrast, just 7,915 EVs found takers, comprising 5,107 two-wheelers and 2,808 four-wheelers.

The UT administration had unveiled its five-year EV policy in September 2022, aiming to gradually stop registering fuel-based vehicles ...