Auto industry should grab EV opportunity: Rajiv Kumar

The auto sector’s fears over electric vehicles (EVs) are misplaced, said NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar. Instead of seeing EVs as a threat, he urged the auto sector to grab the opportunity offered by this sunrise sector and emerge a global leader.

“In any case, in the Electric Mobility announcement we have not included cars at all, we have not given a date, we have also not said what you are going to do,” he stressed.

A miffed Kumar added, “When we have said nothing as yet about four-wheelers and cars, it is a bit strange to constantly hear that the ₹60,000 crore invested in shifting cars and other four-wheelers to BS VI and all this investment will go waste.”