Kerala Government Starts Groundwork on Its Ambitious EV Policy

July 2, 2019 I am Renew 0 Comments CM Pinarayi Vijayan, Energy Efficient Services Ltd, HESS AG, kerala, Kerala EV Policy, Niti Aayog, WRI

After announcing its EV policy late last year, the Kerala government has started to take steps in the direction to make the plan a reality.

The Wait Could be longer

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan at the inauguration of a two-day event ‘Evolve: Kerala mobility conference and expo’ announced not only rolling out electric vehicles but under the EV policy Kerala will also invest on charging infrastructure and suitable technology development as well.

Kerala last year had set an ambitious EV plan under which the state aims to roll out 1 million electric vehicles on the state road. These reportedly include 3,000 buses, 2 lakh two-wheelers, 50,000 three-wheelers, 1,000 goods carriers, and 100 ferries as part of the pilot fleet and all of them will come as electric powered. The government also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the World Resources Institute (WRI), India, in December to implement an electric vehicle (EV) policy, and value capture financing policy framework for Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, and Kozhikode.