India’s aim for all cars to be electric by 2030 labelled “ambitious”

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), India’s plan to sell only electric cars by 2030 would require nearly eight times the global stock for the vehicles.

The agency has said that the country would need to sell over 10 million electric cars in 2030, compared with the 1.3 million on the road since 2015.

The IEA states that while details of the plan are still being worked out, “it is an ambitious plan nonetheless”.

“Regardless, the exact formulation of the target and the extent of its long-term achievement, it is a good step that will help India to be among the global leaders in deploying a technology that is crucial to temper increasing oil import needs, local air pollution in cities, and limit CO2 emissions.”

As part of its plans, a group of ministers have been appointed to make sure that by 2030 almost all vehicles in the country are powered by electricity as a way to cut oil imports and pollution, The Economic Times has reported.