incentivisation involved offering subsidies to alleviate the initial cost burden associated with purchasing evs while the innovation component made evs more accessible and convenient for delhi residentsnew delhi under the next electric vehicle policy delhi government will focus on building a robust charging infrastructure in a threeyear action plan it envisages the deployment of 18000 charging points by 2025 said transport minister kailash gahlot at the delhi ev policy 20 stakeholders consultation programme at india habitat centre on wednesdaythe minister said that consumer awareness campaigns including the upcoming switch delhi 20 campaign would be conducted to educate people and encourage them to embrace electric mobility partnerships with aggregators and efforts to enhance lastmile connectivity through eautos delhi metro feeder ebuses and individual etwowheeler options are being actively pursued gahlot said advt ashish kundra commissioner of the transport department said that in the coming policy the focus could be on net metering and solar panels net metering is something we can consider we have to see how we can build that model we can also encourage charging hubs to have solar panels and then go for net metering said kundraearlier there were reports of the use of clean sources of energy such as solar power for charging evs there was talk of ev charging stations with a solar rooftop photovoltaic facility being economically more viable than those linked with the power gridkundra also said that retrofitting of vehicles for electricity use was something that needed to be studied he said that there were not only regulatory barriers but the cost of retrofitting was also as high as buying a new vehicle only in cases of luxury vehicle owners spending inr 25 lakh on retro fitment to get their outdated 10year diesel vehicles plying again does it make some sense kundra commentedmost of the stakeholders suggested that there should be more incentives for the people aspiring to buy evs rebate in parking and other incentives so that they switch to it the other concerns among the participants were cost of financing being high upfront cost still being high heavy battery replacement cost and fear of not having enough charging stations on long routesspeaking of the 3i model inclusion incentivisation innovation gahlot said the inclusion aspect was focused on actively involving all relevant stakeholders from the conceptualisation stage of the ev policy incentivisation involved offering subsidies to alleviate the initial cost burden associated with purchasing evs while the innovation component made evs more accessible and convenient for delhi residents the introduction of an ev power tariff of inr 45 per unit among the lowest in india significantly reduced the cost of charging gahlot claimed advt read alsoas electric cars boom locals fear chinese battery plant will harm land in droughtstricken hungaryindia and china have highest share of market for ev charging stations in asia pacific region reporttata power collaborates with ranchi airport to install ev charging pointsamid ev hype hybrids cngrun passenger cars shift gears by abhinav rajput tnn