India’s electric vehicle (EV) push is being stymied by a lack of policy coherence, at a time when the need to decarbonize public and individual transport has never been more urgent. Two recent developments illustrate how policy inconsistencies across states could slow the country’s transition to low-emissions transport. In an aggressive policy intervention, the Delhi government last week proposed an EV policy mandating that only electric two-wheelers be registered by 2028 and 100% road tax waiver for electric cars. Nearly coinciding with this announcement came a notification from the Karnataka government slapping a lifetime road tax on the sale of all electric cars.
