FAME 2

Dharamshala Roads Gear up for 15 E-Buses

Close on the heels of Srinagar and Jammu announcing the introduction of 200 electric buses, Dharamshala has announced a similar initiative. Dharamshala roads will soon welcome 15 e-buses. This announcement comes as part of its smart city project, which is said to have gathered momentum following this news. This is a pilot project developed between […]

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Three Wheels United Forays into Two-Wheeler EV Financing

Bengaluru-headquartered fintech firm for EV financing, Three Wheels United (TWU) has forayed into two-wheeler EV financing. TWU plans to finance 2000 two-wheelers in Delhi NCR and Karnataka during the next six months. Established in 2017 by Cedrick Tandong, Kevin Wervenbos, and Apurv Mehra, TWU is focused  on simplifying finance for the adoption of EVs in […]

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EV Sector Hopes For Charging Push, targeted Incentives From Budget 2021

With just 5 days to go for Budget 2021 every citizen, expectations have rarely been so high from the government. And the reason is not just the repair work from the shock of Covid 19 has delivered. For once, people seem to realise that the government will actually have some leeway to break some self […]

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Okinawa Shifts To ‘Lithium Only’ For Its Two Wheelers

NCR based electric two-wheeler maker Okinawa Autotech private Limited (Okinawa) announced today (Thursday) that it is stopping the sale of lead-acid battery-based scooters. The company will focus only on lithium-ion battery-based variants from now on, said the firm in a statement. Incidentally, under the FAME2 guidelines for two-wheeler subsidies, electric vehicles based on lead-acid batteries […]

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Subsidies & Fines Not The Only Prescription for Transport in India

The United states environment Protection agency (EPA), in its greenhouse gas emissions report for 2017, had blamed Transportation for 28.9 percent of total US emissions, with electricity at 27.5 percent coming a close second. As an activity that services virtually every sector of the economy, getting a fix on this has been the obvious, and […]

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