NITI Aayog EV report to accelerate India’s EV transition

NITI Aayog launched a report on ‘Unlocking a $200 Billion Opportunity: Electric Vehicles in India,’ which presents a timely and comprehensive assessment of current challenges while highlighting major unlocks essential to accelerate the country’s EV transition.

Sales of EVs in India went up from 50,000 in 2016 to 2.08 million in 2024, as against global EV sales having risen from 918,000 in 2016 to 18.78 million in 2024. Thus, India’s transition has been slow to start, but it is picking up.

India’s EV penetration was only about one–fifth of the global penetration in 2020, but has picked up to over two-fifths in 2024. It continues to show an increasing trend at a relatively slow rate. This calls for measures to give a stronger push to the EV transition.

As India seeks to attain a 30% share of electric vehicles in the total vehicles sold by 2030, this NITI Aayog EV report suggests ideas and actions to achieve the objective in the next five years.

Developed through extensive stakeholder consultations across 7 dedicated convenings held at NITI Aayog, this report has come out with multiple approaches to accelerate India’s EV transition.

To kickstart the entire effort of accelerating the adoption of EVs, some actions have been recommended as the immediate next steps in the Report.

The report serves as a blueprint for accelerating India’s EV transition. It identifies key barriers, strategic unlocks, and actionable recommendations to accelerate EV adoption. By enabling data-driven decisions and cross-sector collaboration, it supports a unified national push.

Launching the report, Rajiv Gauba, Member, NITI Aayog, said, “India stands at the cusp of a transformative shift in clean mobility. As the nation advances its Electric Mobility ambition, this report provides valuable insights and policy-aligned recommendations to overcome existing barriers and unlock scale.”

BVR Subrahmanyam, CEO, NITI Aayog, added that “NITI Aayog has already been at the forefront of enabling the ongoing EV revolution. This report offers a timely and comprehensive review of current challenges, alongside actionable recommendations to fast-track the EV transition in India”.