EVs Don't Need Additional Subsidies
Financial Express Delhi|January 04, 2025
● Industry demands infrastructure status for battery charging facilities
Mukesh Jagota

The electric vehicles (EV) industry needs no further subsidies beyond what is available right now, to grow and to push the sector's growth, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday.

The government, he said, would leave it to the auto companies to work out their business models around the charging modes.

In an interaction with the auto industry by the minister on "development of battery charging and swapping infrastructure" that saw the participation of automakers in two, three and four wheel categories, charging stations and battery swapping companies, safety standards also figured.

This story is from the January 04, 2025 edition of Financial Express Delhi.

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