Mumbai: The Maharashtra government on Tuesday announced a new policy of electric vehicles (EV) with the aim of making the vehicle reaching 10 percent of total registration shares in 2025.
New policy, which has been updated which was announced in 2018, released by the Secretary of the Additional Head (Transportation) Ashish Singh and Minister of Environment Minister Aaditya Thackeray and others here.
“This policy has several ambitious targets.
Electric vehicles must consist of at least 10 percent of the total vehicles registered in 2025.
We also want to reach 25 percent of EV shares in public transport in Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Aurangabad and Nashik.
This includes converting 15 percent of the MSRTC fleet to EVS in 2025.
We also intend to make the top Maharashtra manufacturer of Battery Driven EVs in India in terms of annual production capabilities, “Singh said.
He said another target specified in a new policy was to form a gigawatt battery manufacturing capability in the state.
Speaking on that occasion, Minister Thackeray said the conventional fuel-based passenger vehicle market might be hesitant because the engine will be increased in the Euro-IV and V model but major changes can be done in the public transport sector by tapping MSRTC and Run Undertakings for EV initiatives , “The policy of the fame of the government union and the new EV policy of Maharashtra can be combined for greater effectiveness.
We tried to establish an EV charging station in these five big cities through several incentives, with residential areas and offices on the priority list for the EV EV charging station set “Thackeray said.
He set aside a query on whether the Tesla’s EV manufacturer was contacted by the state government to become part of this sector by claiming that “a country cannot support a single car manufacturer”.
“We are in talks with all EV makers.
Some of the makers of an additional 73-74 percent of such vehicles are in Maharashtra.
If there are companies that do research, they will naturally find Maharashtra Preferent purposes in terms of additional suppliers and buyers of such vehicles, “The Minister said.
The EV policy has proposed that the procurement of all new vehicles from April next year will be the electricity, while the last miles of vehicles in cities such as Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Nashik and Amravati will say in 2025, Singh.
“There are plans to establish 2,500 charging stations in Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Nashik, Amravati and Solapur, and along the four main highways, namely Mumbai-Pune, Mumbai-Nashik, Mumbai-Naghik, Mumbai-Nashik,” he add.
The official said, under the policy, which will be valid until 2025, the electric two-wheel will get an incentive to RS 44,000 while it can be as high as 1.75 lakh for four wheels.
The housing community and homeowners can get a property tax discount if they set up the EV charging station, officially more.