EVs could slash 33 lakh tonnes of CO2 emissions in Bengaluru in 7 years
Annual emissions of 33 lakh tonnes can be cut down in the Bengaluru metropolitan region if electric vehicles make up for an average 32 per cent of the vehicles on the road, a study by CSTEP has said.
In their study, titled ‘Impact of EV on vehicular emissions’, researchers at the Centre for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP) calculated the drop in greenhouse gas emissions when EVs grow at the weighted compound annual growth (CAGR) rate of 56 per cent till 2030.
Since the data from the transport department was limited to the number of registrations, they adopted a formula to exclude the number of vehicles retiring for various reasons and found the fleet size on the road will grow by 5 per cent of the fleet size of the base year (2021).
