New Delhi: India’s attempts at drafting a policy for swapping of electric vehicle batteries have come to a standstill, as the swapping industry, consisting predominantly of startups and small-scale entrepreneurs, refuses to standardise batteries as they fear undoing by the entry of big businesses.
Also, the startups involved in battery swapping have accused that the proposed standards in the policy draft favour one particular industry player. Amid these accusations, there has been much back-and-forth, with one battery swapping company saying that at the last meeting of stakeholders, the ministry of heavy industries had assured everyone of juking the standardisation requirement.
