India is moving away from diesel rickshaws and two-wheelers. Changes from 2023 to 2025
Today India is the largest motorcycle market in the world. The Government of India has decided to forcibly electrify this segment. Rumor has it that from 2023 all tricycles (rickshaws) will have to be electric. The same applies to two-wheeled vehicles up to 150 cm in length.3 from 2025
India regularly announces ambitious e-mobility plans, but implementation has so far been poor and the time horizon was so distant that there was plenty of time to do nothing. The government appears to be starting to change its approach, perhaps impressed by China's performance.
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According to unofficial information, the Indian government will soon announce that all tricycles must be electric from 2023. In our country, this is quite an exotic segment, but in India, rickshaws are the mainstay of passenger transport in urban areas - so we will be dealing with a revolution. In the segment of two-wheelers up to 150 cubic centimeters, the same law is expected to come into force in 2025.
Electric rickshaw Mahindra e-Alfa Mini (c) Mahindra
It should be added that today the market for electric motorcycles can be traced back to India. In the first quarter of 2019, 22 million two-wheeled vehicles were sold, of which only 126 thousand (0,6%) were electric vehicles. Meanwhile, the sheer number of scooters and cars moving through the streets regularly makes New Delhi one of the most polluted cities in the world.
Opening photo: Electric motorcycle (c) Ural
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