FAME India's EV plan

Under National Electric Mobility Mission Plan (NEMMP), Govt. of India has launched, the FAME, Faster Adoption and Manufacture of (Hybrid and) Electric Vehicles (EV) India Scheme was launched by the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises in 2015 to incentivize the production and promotion of eco-friendly vehicles including electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles.

Main thrust of FAME is to encourage electric vehicles by providing subsidies. Vehicles in most segments – two wheelers, three wheelers, electric and hybrid cars and electric buses obtained the subsidy benefit of the scheme.

FAME focuses on 4 areas i.e. Technology development, Demand Creation, Pilot Projects and Charging Infrastructure.

Phase I of FAME FAME is designed to implement in a phased manner. Phase I of the FAME-India Scheme was scheduled for a two-year period between April 1, 2015, and March 31, 2017, at an approved outlay of Rs 795 crore. But later it was extended to March 31, 2019 or until FAME II is launched.

Government is expected to bring the Phase II of FAME (FAME -II) within March 2019.

Under FAME - I the main objectives is for demand creation of electric vehicles and creating charging infrastructure. The policy documents for FAME - II were planned to reveal in September but according to news sources it was known that Modi has questioned the policy for not including any policy for manufacturing Lithium batteries. Most of the EV Industries and Lithium Battery manufacturer's are not happy with the policies rolled by India's Govt. and are still in wait and watch mode.

Recently, many of the countries are giving push for EV because of two concerns (i) Increasing pollution to alarming level in cities due to uncontrolled increase in traffic by rising middle class and poor public transportation models. (ii) Over dependence on Oil which is an imported quantity, which directly affects on the Imports and Exports and thus on inflation of currency.

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