Battery-operated electric vehicles (EVs) will not get cheaper with the Road Ministry’s proposal to waive registration charges, as the government policy to adopt and make EVs faster mandates the use of Lithium-Ion and similar batteries which are expensive.
However, the overall cost of operating and maintaining the two- and three-wheelers could drop, says Vineet J Mehra, Managing Director, DOT, a company that uses only EVs to deliver goods in the last mile for Amazon, Swiggy, Walmart, Grofers, McDonald’s and FreshMenu.
Use of EVs are likely to bring in some cost advantage in logistics operation. Fuel operating cost for EVs on a per kilometre basis is around 0.25 paise for a two-wheeler and 0.75 paise for a three-wheeler, against conventional vehicles which have a per kilometre cost of Rs. 2.5 and Rs. 3.5 respectively,” Mehra told BusinessLine .
