of over 2170 lakh electric vehicles registered in india uttar pradesh topped the list with 465432 evs followed by maharashtra and delhi with 226134 and 203263 respectively the government said in parliament on tuesdayunion minister of state for heavy industries krishan pal gurjar said in a written reply in lok sabha that total sales of electric vehicles in the year 2022 stood at 1015196 as against 327976 in the previous year 2021 total 256980 evs have been registered in the current year till march 15the ministry of heavy industries has given incentives to buyers and manufacturers of electric vehicles through three schemes the minister saidthe government notified phaseii of fame india scheme initially for a period of five years commencing from april 1 2019 with a total budgetary support of rs 10000 crore under fameindia scheme phaseii incentives are provided to buyers of electric vehicles in the form of an upfront reduction in the purchase price of electric vehiclesthe incentive is linked to battery capacity which is rs 10000kwh for e3w and e4w with a cap 20 per cent of the cost of the vehicle further the incentive subsidies for e2w has been increased to rs 15000kwh from rs 10000kwh with an increase in cap from 20 per cent to 40 per cent of the cost of the vehicle from june 11 2021the government on september 15 2021 approved the pli scheme for automotive sector with a budgetary outlay of rs 25938 crore to support domestic manufacturing of vehicles electric vehicles are covered under this pli schemeon may 12 2021 te government had approved pli scheme for manufacturing of acc in the country with a budgetary outlay of rs 18100 crore the scheme envisages establishing a competitive acc battery manufacturing set up in the country for 50 gwh additionally 5gwh of niche acc technologies is also covered under the scheme