87% Of Indian Vehicle Owners Ready To Buy Electric Vehicles
About 87 percent of Indian drivers and vehicle owners would buy an electric vehicle, if that helped reduce air pollution, according to a new survey. Only 12 percent would switch to EVs to avoid using petrol and diesel, according to the survey commissioned by Climate Trends, a Bengaluru-based nonprofit, which polled more than 2,000 Indian drivers, owners and those who planned to buy a car. In 2017, India sold about 900,000 EVs, 4 percent of the volume of diese l and petrol vehicles sold. Transportation accounts for about 11 per cent of India’s carbon emissions and is a major source for air pollution in several cities nationwide. As many as 14 of the world’s top 20 most-polluted cities are in India, according to a 2018 World Health Organization report . The findings of the Climate Trends survey were launched on Sept. 6, 2018, a day before the start of a two-day long conference organised by NITI Aayog, the central government’s think...