The Society for Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles (SMEV) has sent a petition to the parliamentary standing committee on industry, energy and estimates pointing to the “erroneous” claim made by the ministry of heavy industries of achieving its target of subsidising one million electric two-wheelers by April 2023.
The petition says the claim is wrong because the ministry has included the sale of EVs that has not been subsidised under the FAME II scheme.’
The government had from April 2022 started blocking the FAME II subsidies to OEMs in the EV sector for flouting the stipulations of localisation and price cap. Auditors consulting with the SMEV have contended that the figures stated by the ministry on FAME II mandated targets, have included sales of those EVs that were not funded under the scheme.
