(LiveMint)
The NITI Aayog on Friday said India’s transportation architecture should comprise a mix of fuel sources, in what could provide relief to automobile manufacturers, under the pump with the government’s push for an all-electric fleet of vehicles by 2030.
“India’s transportation architecture would be based on three aspects—maturity of technology, cost-effective and how close it is to sustainability. Based on these, India will be rolling out its transportation design. It will be a mix of conventional internal combustion engines, electric vehicles, hybrid vehicles and other evolving technologies,” said NITI Aayog member V.K. Saraswat.
He added that the entire transportation system of a country could not rely on just one form of fuel. Saraswat said transforming the entire vehicle fleet to electric power was not viable due to reasons such as cost, high investment in manufacturing, and non-availability of raw material for manufacturing lithium-ion batteries.
