India is among the fastest-growing EV markets with already more than 8,00,000 units sold. A huge chunk of these sales includes electric three-wheelers and two-wheelers. This is very interesting because electric three-wheelers and electric buses are used for public transportation. So these numbers don’t translate to an exact number of users. Transforming public transport into an EV market is the fastest and the most effective way to reduce the carbon footprint of a country with over 1.3 billion people.
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Global Scenario
Globally, the automobile industry is shifting towards full-electric vehicles. Particularly, this process has paced up quite a bit in the last decade. In 2019, there were 4.8 million battery electric vehicles (BEV) in use worldwide. Remember, battery electric vehicles use a single source (battery) for operation. This means that this figure does not include the plug-in hybrids or…