India aims to make all new cars electric by 2030

Every car sold in India will be electric by 2030, according to plans unveiled by the country’s energy minister.

The move is part of plans to lower the cost of importing fuel and lower the costs of running vehicles, The Independent has reported.

Coal and mines minister, Piyush Goyal said at the Confederation of Indian Industry Annual Session 2017, that electric vehicles are expected to be introduced in a “very big way”.

He said: “We are going to make electric vehicles self-sufficient.

“The idea is that by 2030, not a single petrol or diesel car should be sold in the country.”

Goyal also said that the electric car industry would need around two or three years of government assistance, but that the production of the vehicles is expected to be “driven by demand and not subsidy” after this.

He added that the cost of electric vehicles “will start to pay for itself for consumers”.