we need to decide the battery standards so that uniformity is maintained and the batteries fit into different types of vehicles new delhi auto industrys lobby group siam has told niti aayog that it wont be possible to meet the target of increasing the share of electric twowheelers to 25 and threewheelers to 50 by 2023 and sought that the deadline be pushed to 2030 while seeking promotional subsidy from the governmentat a meeting with representatives from different departments and the automobile industry on january 14 the government think tank had said that a greater focus of electric mobility should be on two and threewheelers it had sought feedback from the stakeholders on the target of increasing the sale of electric twowheelers to nearly 87 lakh in 202223 and threewheelers to around 47 lakh to make a visible impact annually almost two crore twowheelers are sold across the country advt toi has learnt that the government is considering to provide promotional subsidy in the range of rs 30000 to rs 40000 per vehicle to bring down the gap between the cost of a conventional two or threewheeler and an electric one sources said the governments new focus on these two categories of vehicles is aimed at taking the benefit to more number of peopleaccording to official estimates to meet the battery requirement of the proposed number of vehicles by 2023 india would need to create a battery storage capacity of 27 gigawatts which would require around rs 60000 crore of investment sources said with hardly any lithiumion battery manufacturing facility in place india would end up importing huge quantities of batteries from chinamoreover we need to decide the battery standards so that uniformity is maintained and the batteries fit into different types of vehicles the government is yet to take a call on what all categories of vehicles will be covered under the subsidy regime it has been more than a year since the government started talking of taking a big leap to promote ev but the policy has not yet moved beyond mere cosmetics said an industry insider by dipak k dash tnn published on jan 18 2019 at 0820 am 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 electric motorcycles and scooters china chinese batteries india lithiumion battery homenewsindustryniti aayogs target of more electric twowheelers may push import of chinese batteries