Market projections for electric vehicle growth in India are ambitious but uncertain. In addition, the passenger car CO2 standards enforced in India are amongst the most lenient, and the super-credit multipliers available for electric vehicles are more generous compared to global practices. Further, in India, electric vehicles are not treated as zero-emission vehicles, nor are they required to account for upstream emission impacts. Instead, they are assumed to be displacing an equivalent volume of gasoline that would have been combusted in a conventional vehicle and resulting emissions. India also does not have sales targets declared for electric vehicles. The prevailing super-credit multiplier values prescribed in the Indian standards offer excessive compliance flexibility to manufacturers. This study demonstrates that if the current super-credit multipliers for electric vehicles in India prevail, fuel consumption of conventional vehicles can significantly lag fleet average levels and can even stay stagnant near 2017 emission levels through 2030.
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Technology Partners: MimirTech
Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/incentivizing-electric-vehicles-meet-fuel-consumption-standards-passenger-cars
[2] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/ICCT_EV_standards_India.pdf
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/shikha-rokadiya
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/zifei-yang
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/anup-bandivadekar
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/international-council-clean-transportation-icct
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/electric-vehicles
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cars
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-dioxide
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/compliance-and-enforcement
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/zero-emissions-vehicles
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/green-house-gases
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fuel-efficiency
