battery swapping these policies incentivize the adoption of e3ws through subsidies for new vehicles and retrofitting incentives for existing ice 3wsstates can also encourage retrofit kit manufacturers by offering incentives promoting market competition improving product quality and driving down prices additionally state ev policies should address battery recycling and reuse for a more comprehensive approachkey recommendationsthe following recommendations are derived from the various parts of the study including the e3w technology classification consumer survey review of national and statelevel policies and schemes and stakeholder consultations the recommendations aim to address the barriers to ev adoption in india particularly in the e3w segmentgovernment installation of more pcs and regular health check of pcs as 65 of the drivers faced issues related to nonfunctional charging points and long waiting times provide investment support to charging and swapping players especially to startups as this would help accelerate the rollout of charging stations regular ev awareness forums to make people aware of evrelated benefits incentives vehicle oems provide better training to service centre technicians as this would help reduce the servicing time improve build quality by seeking regular customer feedback as 45 of the drivers stated that the build quality is better in ice 3ws partner with major financial institutions to provide cheaper loans as the average roi down payment are greater than for ice 3wschargingswapping players make chargingswapping applications robust userfriendly replace old batteries at swapping centres with new ones as the average range for swappable batteries is only 70 km adoption of a single charging application as 914 of drivers stated that there should be a single application with access to all pcs disclaimer dr vikas nimesh is senior research associate and anmol jain is research associate at emobility alliance for an energy efficient economy aeee views are personalread alsoregistration of evs zoom past diesel vehicles in kochidelhi electrification targets will negatively impact mobility of people in nct nasscomuk bengal to ink ev manufacturing dealgovt plans to double turnover of automobile industry to inr 15 lakh crore nitin gadkari by vikas nimesh anmol jain etauto published on jul 4 2023 at 0855 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etauto app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app e3w adoption omega seiki fame electric vehicles electric wheeler auto industry internal combustion engine homenewshow to overcome challenges to boost e3w adoption for last mile mobility