Would Love Electric Vehicle For First-Time Buyers: Minister Piyush Goyal

Union minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday said 80 per cent of India’s population does not own a vehicle as yet and he would want their first vehicle to be electric. He was speaking here at a World Economic Forum session on ‘Designing for smart mobility’ where he stressed on the need for smart mobility to optimise traffic flow in India. “In Western countries, everybody owns vehicles. Countries like India which are still emerging, we have 80 per cent of our population which does not own a vehicle as yet and we would love them to have a first vehicle which is electric,” Goyal said.

He also said India has adopted renewable energy very rapidly. “If we take solar energy alone, we have grown by about 6 times in the last 3.5 years, and our plan is to go up to 100 GW by 2022. India has chosen to go down the path of clean energy,” the minister said.

In 2015, the government embarked on the world’s largest campaign to replace all lighting by LEDs, he said while adding that in three years, 800 million bulbs have been replaced with LEDs in the country and the price has fallen by 87 per cent. Read More…

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