Amid the UT administration’s push for electric vehicles (EV), the five-year records show that the number of the electric vehicles registered in the city was less than 1% of the total.
In reply to a question raised in the Lok Sabha on the promotion of electric vehicles, minister of state for heavy industries Krishan Pal Gurjar said 5,549 electric vehicles — including 1,599 two-wheelers, 3,304 three-wheelers and 646 four-wheelers — had been registered in Chandigarh till March 9, of the 8,25,228 vehicles running on fossil fuel registered in the city so far. The same makes for only seven in every 1,000 vehicles.
According to the Union ministry of road and transport, in 2022, 50,901 vehicles were registered in Chandigarh in total. Of these, 2,718 were electric — accounting for a mere 5%.
