Every car sold in India will be powered by electricity by the year 2030, according to plans unveiled by the country’s energy minister.
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Delhi is India's most polluted city, according to Greenpeace, with concentrations of particulate matter 13 times the limit set by the World Health Organisation |
The move is intended to lower the cost of importing fuel and lower costs for running vehicles.
“We are going to introduce electric vehicles in a very big way," coal and mines minister Piyush Goyal said at the Confederation of Indian Industry Annual Session 2017 in New Delhi.
Comparing the drive to a 2015 initiative in the country to reduce energy bills by promoting LED lightbulbs, he told reporters: "We are going to make electric vehicles self-sufficient... The idea is that by 2030, not a single petrol or diesel car should be sold in the country.”
Read Harriet Agerholm’s story in the Independent - “India to make every single car electric by 2030 in bid to tackle pollution that kills millions.”
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