Electrifying India’s buses: Big opportunity, bigger challenges
If you thought India’s attempt to electrify its bus fleets would be a smooth ride, think again.
Financing concerns, supply chain bottlenecks, e-bus driving range issues, lack of grid and charging infrastructure, and the need to train a lot of people are some of the obstacles standing in the way of its dream of tackling pollution and congestion by deploying electric buses, experts told DH.
Despite the plethora of challenges, the world’s fourth-largest automobile market has to find a way to make it work as it is home to 18 of the 20 cities with the most severe increase in PM2.5 pollution from 2010 to 2019, as per the Air Quality and Health in Cities, A State of Global Air report.
