As per government’s policy for pollution control ,EVs belonging to all categories could also be exempted from road tax for registration

• GST on electric vehicles can reduce from 12% to 5%

•GST on electric chargers will also be slashed from 18% to 12%

• It’s a result of government’s boost EV sales for a brighter future

As we know that India is known for some of its most polluted cites (Delhi , Banglore and Mumbai) . Making the Indian government is concerned about the health of future generations in the country . Government has started many programs supporting pollution control and climate change

Combustion engine cars play a important role in polluting the nation’s air . And an surplus of cars in a nation of billion’s it is difficult to restrict so many from using their vehicles and promoting government vehicles

So what does the government do?
The government of India has been pushing for faster adoption of EVs in India for some time now. While it already has the FAME (Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles) scheme for subsidising EV purchases in the country, The customers are still not happy with the goverments involvement in this programme .  The customers needs more from the government.

• New scheme
While the goods and services (GST) tax on electric vehicles is currently set at 12 per cent, the government is planning to reduce it to 5 per cent soon. It is also reported that it will also reduce the GST on electric chargers from 18 per cent to 12 per cent. Ticket fares of fully-electric commercial buses will also be exempted from any form of tax.
Apart from this, the government is also planning to give EV sales a shot in the arm by cutting registration taxes and thereby reducing the initial ownership cost. Conventional internal combustion engined cars are levied with 28 per cent tax compared to the current 12 per cent on electric cars. According to a draft notification issued by the Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways on Tuesday, the government has proposed that all electric vehicles (including two- and three-wheelers) will be exempted from paying road tax all vehicle registration.

India is not ready yet? But companies that already believe in the vision of EV India.

Niti Aayog ( National Institute For Transforming India) had also proposed that all vehicles sold by 2030 should be electric. Along with that, the government has also announced that it is planning to only sell electric three-wheelers from April 2023. The customs duty on import of EV parts were also recently reduced to increase domestic production. The next GST council meeting on June 21 will witness the discussion for the reduction of GST on electric vehicles.

Fully electric vehicles have still not caught up in India due to various reasons like the lack of adequate charging infrastructure. On a positive note, there’s a slew of new manufacturers that are coming in hot with their fully electric vehicles. Hyundai will be launching the Kona Electric on July 9, which will be the first all-electric SUV in India. It will be followed up by MG Motor’s eZS SUV in December

What’s about Rimac?

Rimac one of the few successful electric hypercar automaker competing with Tesla, founded in 2009 by Mate Rimac (CEO of rimac ), and it’s grown  a lot for developing two mind-bendingly fast hypercars called the rimac concept one and concept two. The small Croatian startup started their career with selling battery packs to other Car manufacturers . Rimac now being one of the most well known electric car maker has already made couple of deals with iconic automakers such as Jaguar, Aston Martin, Koenigsegg etc and 15 percent of the stake bought by VW group is working on many projects like Valkyrie (Aston Martin) E-Type Zero(Jaguar),The Pininfarina Battista hypercar (1900 electric horse power hypercar) and also plays an important role in development of modern EV cars for VW group (Porsche, Audi)

What makes the Koreans interested?

Hyundai’s sister company Kia has announced a $90 million investment in the boutique Croatian automaker

$90 million for what?

Hyundai and sister company Kia Motors announced on Tuesday that they are investing €80 million (about $90 million) in Croatian electric hypercar startup Rimac. In exchange for the investment, the Korean automakers will gain access to Rimac’s tech. They already have plans to build an electric prototype of one of Hyundai’s N brand performance cars as well as a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle by 2020.
No further details about the cars were released, and it’s unclear how big a stake Hyundai and Kia received in the Croatian company

Ford also enters the race of EV’s. With the success of companies like Tesla and the outstanding benefits of electric cars. There is race between automakers to get the most affordable and exciting electric vehicle’s. Ford a 115 year’s old American car company. One of the pioneers of the morden car era known for its affordable cars like Ford focus, fiesta, pickups like ranger and even iconic supercars like the mustang and ford GT having a production output of 6.6million in 2017 is trying to upgrade it’s game by entring the electric car market. Recently ford has made renders of a mustang like crossover which will be the company’s first EV car to be released by late 2020 .

How is ford gonna achieve this?

Ford has decided to have a alignment with Rivian an fully focused EV automaker who showcased their Ev concepts of a SUV The R1S and a electric truck R1T. Hackett(CEO) is quite impressed with the Rivians skateboard technology . Recently Rivian has got an 700 dollars investment by amazon . Ford also is investing 500 million dollars as it will help Ford make electric vehicles using Rivians tech But Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe has said Rivian is making “several models” for other companies., Scaringe said Rivian is “very much focused on the relationships we’ve now built, launching our own products, and making sure our eyes are focused on execution.”
Hackett also said the deal with Rivian won’t affect the automaker’s recent partnership with Volkswagen, which includes pickup trucks . Ford has been tied to at least one other EV startup before: it held with a talk with lucid motor in 2017 which that eventually broke down

With a view to reduce emissions and boost fuel efficiency, MG Motor will offer a segment-first 48V mild-hybrid variant of its first SUV for India.

What’s on offer?

MG Hector is one of the most exciting suv in 2019 that India is been waiting for. Now with an announcement of an mild-hybrid version of the car the wait has become more exciting. With a 48 volt mild hybrid system the car gets an additional 48Nm of torque paired to the naturally aspirated 1.5 litre engine producing 143hp. The Hector will also have a regenerative braking system that will help the 48volt battery to charge with the help of kinetic energy produced.

The Hectors mileage isn’t yet reveled but it is said that this hybrid system will increase the efficiency by 12% catering the same mileage as the diesel variant all this be according to the new regulations in India there is an increase in the price of diesel cars. So the mild hybrid variants will help customer have the same same mileage benefits at a cheaper, modern and eco friendly manner another reason behind the hybrid system is that MG motors been owned by a SAIC motors an Chinese automaker that is focused on electric cars. MG also wants to be known as a manufacturer of electric and hybrid vehicles, and has previously confirmed it will bring the all-electric eZS SUV – with a range of 428km – to India in Q4, 2019. It will be priced between 15-20lac(exshowroom) competing the Tata Harrier, jeep Compass , Hyundai Tucson. At this price Hector will be the cheapest car to offer mild hybrid system of 48 volt which was previously offered by a Mercedes Benz C class priced at Rs 48 lac (ex showroom).

Norway is one of those country that has more than 30% of electric cars. Believing that the future of cars is better electric. Now they plan to take a step up towards the future. In order to have a all electric transportation system it is necessary to have electric public vehicle’s as well. At this moment companies like Tesla can cater electric public vehicles but that is not the issue with electric cars and public service.

Most of the cab drivers drive their rides for their livelihood hence they have to have at least 6 hours in service. But these cab drivers don’t have that much time to find a supercharger and then wait till the car is fully charged. It is lot of time consuming and can cause great loss to the drivers.Hence Norway has gone for a innovative way to charge their cabs. An induction system for electric cabs for more efficiency

Norway plans to put charging plates on roads or taxi parking lots that will provide upto 75kw charge to the taxies when in slow motion or waiting for a ride that will help the taxies to charge themselves . That will increase the endurance of the Taxi helping to achieve more service time. However for a of population 5.3 million it is convenient to do so. Hence Norway maybe tha first country to have truly wireless charging for cars by 2023 Olso is planning to have all taxies with zero emission . However Norway is very ambitious about their wireless charging system and are planing to bring into action by 2025.

FOR NORWAY –
The future is electric, and it is already here, right now. Wireless charging is a potential game changer,” said Sture Portvik, Oslo’s electro mobility

Faraday Future is an American start-up technology company focused on the development of electric cars. Faraday Future was established in April 2014. This start up was before funded to make the ultimate electric supercar which was designed to compete with Tesla Roadster by a Chinese Mobile and electronic company LeTV(Le eco) but this company not that well in the mobile industry because of the dominance of companies like Samsung, Apple and One plus. Leading to great loss and long trail debts. This also affected the car start up Faraday’s economy. Due to inadequate funds the company could not start the mass production of FF 91 which was supposed to be the Tesla killer.

NOT OVER YET ?

Chinese gaming company The9 limited say it might contribute $600 million to help Faraday Future buildup and start car shipment in China by 2020

The new car will start it’s car production with the FF19 an luxury based SUV which they had debuted in the CES 2017. Faraday Future claims to make 3,00,000 cars per year. The9 will invest it’s $600 million with a initial deposit of $5 million which will be used to overcome it’s cash flow difficulties. Later there will be three $200 million installments

First 200 million within two monthsas long as the company sets up in Hong Kong . To unlock the second $200 million deposit. After that, Faraday Future has three months to provide the joint venture with the concept design of the V9, which will unlock the final $200 million installment. The rest will be unlocked on the basis of their performance . But due to the intense competition and Faradays most of the talented employees hired by Rivian an other electric car focused company it is a tough path that Faraday has to walk

Polestar 2 is a perfect reply to Teslas model 3 . Polestar is a subsidiary brand of Swadisht automaker Volvo . It’s a brand that focuses only on Modern electric car only Volvo’s investment in the future. Polestar 2 is a entry level electric luxury car which can travel 275 miles (443km) on a single charge thanks to the 47kwh battery which can produce 480 horsepower with dual electric motor all wheel drive which can cover 0 to 60 miles per hour under 5 seconds priced at 45000$ for the base model and 68000$ for its top model it is car that has everything that the model 3 has to offer in a more European way . The polestar 2 has all the latest google car updates as google takes care of all the cars software part as it has Google’s operating base. Polestar will be available in China, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Belgium.

In this modern era car companies are focusing on Electric cars . Koenigsegg goes with a completely different plan . They are sticking to their guns . They had successfully made the fastest production car wich was the koenigsegg Agera RS(278mph top speed) defeating Bugattis tops speed of 270mph But recently it has been defeted by thehennessey venom f5 (300+ top speed). But people at Koenigsegg believe that there is always room for improvement hence The Koenigsegg Jesko comes into light

Koenigseggs Jesko is the ultimate combustion car that the brand has to offer named after company founders Dad . Which claims to be the world’s first road legal 300mph (480kmph) car . Which generates all this power with its 5Liter twin turbocharged V8 engine which. No doubt is the ultimate V8 engine because it can achieve numbers which seemed impossible for a V8 engine. The car weighs a unbelievable 12.5kg . It can produce 1,600 horsepower on E85 biofuel and 1,280 horsepower on regular gasoline . Koenisegg has introduced A new nine-speed Light Speed Transmission system has been designed in-house, promising ”gear changes [that] occur in virtually zero time between adjacent gears.” It’s accompanied by an Ultimate Power On Demand predictive gear-changing technology that will ensure “instant, prolific power that’s always optimised and always available, allowing maximum acceleration. It also has an improvised rear wheel steering system for high speed turns . All of of this a price tag of 2.8 million dollars without tax . And 0nly 125 of these beeing produced out of which 90 are already been sold it one of the toughest car to get your hands on . Production starts by late 2020 and deliveries by early 2021 it worth all tha time . Koenigsegg has confirmed that this is their last combination car and they will move on to modern hybrids and electric cars

Pininfarina a Italian car design company founded by Battista “pinin”Farina in 1930 know for its fair contribution in the design s of some iconic cars such as Ferrari 250GT, 275GTB,365GT4BB,alfa romeo Duetto and even the legendary ENZO Ferrari was bought buy Indian automaker Mahindra . After been bought buy Mahindra group on December 2015 had a comeback in the 2019 Geneva motorshow with the Pininfarina Battista a all electric hyper car named after its founder Battista Farina

The Battista is one of the next generation electric hyper cars after the Tesla roadster (gen2) rimac concept 2. Talking of Rimac the Battista shares a lot of components with the Rimac concept 2 many of the motor part’s including the light weight batteries are supplied from Rimac . Battista is a electric hypercar with 1900 horses making it the fastest Italian car till date.It receive this power from a 120KWh battery pack seen in the Rimac concept 2 . It is a car with a speed of 350kmh . It touches 0-100kmph under 2 seconds and 0-300kmph under 12 seconds which is more powerful than the Bugatti Chiron . But only a 150 of these been made it very tough to get your hands on.

Tesla motors the pioneer of electric cars globally have recently launched an affordable compact SUV called as the Tesla model Y completing the SEXY line up by Elon Musk . The model Y satisfies all the needs of a compact SUV with a plus point of 3 row seating arrangement. And starting at price of 47000$(₹32lac) it is quite affordable

The model Y being a compact SUV the most hottest segment of cars now with 3 rows and it’s affordable pricing just perfectly fulfills the need of family car in India. A country with 1.2 billions of population greatly known for its joint family heritage . Model Y being electric like the other Tesla’s can greatly improve Indias pollution problem knowing that Delhi and many other States of India are the highest polluted cities globally .

Then what is stopping Tesla to lay their roots in India ?? It’s the strict indian policy that a foreign company should follow . One of them is that Tesla should use 30% of the resources that are made in India that will help in growth of Indian economy as well.But this is not possible at present . There are great tax imposed on such foreign companies . Another demand by the Indian government is that India won’t promote autonomous driving as there is a fear of thousands of divers in India may lose their Jobs . And with a very few charging stations and poor roads. The situations in India does not favour electric cars at present.