[FrozeninTime]

Delhi government has proposed a new EV policy.
The key highlights:

*Third private car must be electric

*No fossil fuel three-wheeler registrations from August this year

* No petrol two-wheeler registrations from August 2026

*over 13,200 charging stations will be installed across Delhi, ensuring a station every five kilometres.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/swarajy...lers-from-2026

[LionX]

Originally Posted by FrozeninTime

Delhi government has proposed a new EV policy.

13200 charging stations sounds interesting. Since it’s a new EV policy and does not affect people who are already purchased cars

*Third private car must be electric ( could’ve been second car and onwards )

* No petrol two-wheeler registrations from August 2026 ( could’ve been No petrol, diesel & CNG )

Also govt should have asked the manufacturers to make 3 wheelers with 200+ KM real world range by offering subsidies.

[fatsoboy]

Is there any news if the registration benefits for private cars will continue or not. I'm evaluating windsor but not able to finalize because of this

[PreludeSH]

No petrol 2 wheeler registrations ? This will be a problem for new bikes and especially sport bikes. There is no good EV bike today and they want to ban them in a year?

Does it really say 'only' petrol ?

[ike]

Originally Posted by FrozeninTime

The key highlights:

*Third private car must be electric

Is this for the 3rd car in every household or is it the third car per person? If it is the latter, then it can be bypassed by registering the car in your family members' names.

[mally2]

Originally Posted by ike

Is this for the 3rd car in every household or is it the third car per person? If it is the latter, then it can be bypassed by registering the car in your family members' names.

Very hard to enforce at a household level, so expect this loophole to be exploited. Ideally it should have been from second car onwards.

[manub22]

Originally Posted by PreludeSH

No petrol 2 wheeler registrations ? This will be a problem for new bikes and especially sport bikes. There is no good EV bike today and they want to ban them in a year?

Does it really say 'only' petrol ?

The news is sourced from HindustanTimes, and for 2 wheeler it states as follows:

"no non-electric two-wheeler will be allowed to register from August 2026". So yes its all types of fossil fuels !!!

[BhayanaV]

Originally Posted by manub22

The news is sourced from HindustanTimes, and for 2 wheeler it states as follows:

"no non-electric two-wheeler will be allowed to register from August 2026". So yes its all types of fossil fuels !!!

Highly likely this will be extended, given the number of petrol bikes sold every day, delivery riders being the prominent customers.

[Cool Piscean]

Originally Posted by ike

Is this for the 3rd car in every household or is it the third car per person? If it is the latter, then it can be bypassed by registering the car in your family members' names.

News in HT (https://www.hindustantimes.com/citie...061931470.html ) says third private car purchased in every Delhi household must be an electric vehicle.

[DemonEyE]

Earlier, such announcements used to amaze me, but now, hearing and watching such is a regular thingy. However, at current I think that they will delay this ban as we near August 2026.

[antz.bin]

*Ather, Ola, Ultraviolette, Simple promoters dancing in the background*

Roughly 4.5 lakh 2-wheelers were sold in Delhi in the year 2024 (as per Vahan data), up from ~4 lakh in 2023. If all of these move to EVs, that is a massive boost to the E2W manufacturers. Chandigarh has already put limits on the number of ICE vehicles that can be registered there. So this movement will only grow elsewhere in the country.

Coming to the vehicles themselves, E2Ws are OK replacements for Petrol ones as far as scooters are concerned. Most scooters are used in dense urban environment and EVs excel here. As far as range is concerned, the TVS iQube already comes with a 5 kWh battery and someone will bring in even longer range scooters by the time this comes into effect. We already know that Ultraviolette will be launching the 6kWh Tesseract some time next year.

The real problem is with motorcycles, especially the higher performance ones > 200-250cc. There is no EV equivalent for those yet. Not in India, not in the world. The only option currently available is the Ultraviolette F77 and even that has a large drawbacks when it comes to DC fast charging availability. I hold an Ultraviolette booking but I haven't been able to find locations of even one of their "Supernova" fast chargers online. There are literally no other options apart from the Harley Davidson Livewire.

[Gummybear]

In current scenarios and technical capabilities (read it as km per kwh range) of batteries, commuter two wheelers makes most sense for EV use case. The proposed policy should take consideration for engine size of two wheelers for registration barring , may be any thing below 150cc.

[Sentau]

Originally Posted by antz.bin

The real problem is with motorcycles, especially the higher performance ones > 200-250cc. There is no EV equivalent for those yet. Not in India, not in the world. The only option currently available is the Ultraviolette F77 and even that has a large drawbacks when it comes to DC fast charging availability. I hold an Ultraviolette booking but I haven't been able to find locations of even one of their "Supernova" fast chargers online. There are literally no other options apart from the Harley Davidson Livewire.

For me, higher capacity/performance motorcycles are machines bought and ridden for pleasure. I don't see this category changing to EVs anytime soon (if ever). Anything 160cc and below are more commuting oriented practical vehicles and these should be changed to EVs alongside cars. I don't have any statistics (if somebody can help me out here, it would be much appreciated) but purely based on the number of commuters vs tourers/sportsbikes, etc., I wager that far far more kilometers are clocked on commuters than on any other categories of bikes. Replacing the commuters alone should be enough to massively reduce two wheeler pollution. The others can be left alone for now.

[guptad42]

National and state govt policies should promote EVs in a way that speeds up adoption of EVs by the public. Keeping this in mind, EV policy can target the incentives on EVs by range and price. Use the policy to influence carmakers behaviour.

For cars, it can be:

1. Category A: Give these cars all the incentives. Lower GST, no road tax, cheaper insurance mandates, lower tolls and parking charges etc.

• >300km real life highway range at 80Kmph from 80% to 10% SOC.
• Max on-road price of 20Lacs with charger.
• Battery and EV tech fully covered by manufacturer warranty and standard EV insurance policy for min 8 years.
• Bidirectional 3.3KW or higher charger. Preferential (low) EV home-charging power tariff based on time of day, with very low rate during off peak late night hours and afternoon peak solar production hours.

2. Category B: Reduce incentives to half of category A for private cars. Taxis get full incentives/ same as Category A.

• >500 km real life range, Max 25L price.
• Battery and EV tech fully covered by manufacturer warranty and standard EV insurance policy for min 8 years.
• Bidirectional 7KW or higher charger. Time of day home-charging tariff.

3. Category C: Every electric car that does not meet Cat A or Cat B requirements. No need to incentivise this set of cars for cost of ownership. Cat C are still EVs. So, allowed on the road on days when Delhi bans petrol-diesel cars in the winter due to pollution.

The rationale is simple:

• Low range EVs are not going to find volumes due to range anxiety. Don't waste money on incentivising them.
• Considering that most of the Indian car market volume is at 15Lacs or below, there is not much justification for govt to spend taxpayers' money on incentivising cars priced at more than 20L. Instead, use the same pool of money to incentivise more Category A EVs.
• Intercity taxis/commercial vehicles may need more range, and potentially offer more carbon savings due to heavier usage. So they can have incentives up to 25L price point, if they have much longer range (Cat B).
• Use EV incentives to add battery storage to the grid.

We can also learn from China on how to do EV incentives. They upgraded the qualification for incentives every 2-3 years, forcing EV makers to continuously improve the product or lose incentives. e.g. Govt can publish a timetable that in 3 years: Cat A will be updated to 350Km range and max 15 Lacs price on road. Cab B will be updated to 500Km range and max 20Lacs in price on road.

Govt can also add a stick instead of banning petrol car and 2-wheeler registration completely. Let them register but charge 25% of total consumer billed price as a carbon tax. Use this money for expanding the EV incentive and home rooftop solar incentives, it also helps EV sales by increasing the cost of petrol an diesel vehicles.

[ALTIMAed]

Originally Posted by guptad42

The rationale is simple: [list][*]Low range EVs are not going to find volumes due to range anxiety. Don't waste money on incentivising them.

If I could be permitted to add my 2 cents

1 - Free registration / road tax upto a certain ex - showroom price bracket. The rationale being, anyone who can afford, lets say a 50L ex - showroom EV, can always afford paying the registration and road tax, which could be at a lower percentage as compared to ICEed vehicles.

2 - Free toll tax for all green plates - could be implemented for a limited period, it shall definitely be a 'feel good factor' for existing EV users and an added incentive for those on the 'decision making wall'.

3 - GST IGST rebate / incentive based on drive battery Kwhr rating. This shall lead manufacturers to align themself to make small EV 4 wheelers (size of the Comet / Tiago) in order to promote 4 wheelers at the small car mass market level.

4 - Mandatory for government organisations to purchase EVs

5 - Small commercial vehicles - all to be EVs

6 - Total ban on fossil fueled 3 wheelers

7 - Municipal vehicles all to be EVs

8 - How about any manufacturer looking into EV tractors