How is e-mobility relevant to India’s context?
E-mobility is an effective measure to counter air pollution, a major contributor of which is vehicular pollution. It holds the promise to rejuvenate the auto sector which is going through one of its worst crises due to plateauing of demand among traditional consumers. E-mobility has potential for reconfiguring the transport sector. Its mass integration helps rationalise costs of the electric vehicle ecosystem, for which economics of public and private transport need to be analysed. This is challenging because each city has its own unique mobility landscape. It is difficult to say at this stage to what extent it can address chaotic, overcrowded transportation issues, but one can expect optimal EV integration to compel multiple stakeholders to revisit an urban mobility plan.
What are the biggest deterrents to taking a city level, low carbon mobility plan to scale?
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Cities display great amount of diversity and must draw their own mobility plan. Localisation is important and to achieve that, cities need to know the kind of issues they are required to tackle. Numerous authorities such as city transport utility, regional transport office, traffic department, municipal corporation, drive the sector without clarity of goals or accountability or much planning. So the role of political leadership and state transport department becomes absolute.
Source: Times of India
