Indian Industry in its effort to Electro Mobility

Back in 2002, Ashok Leyland Ltd. developed countries first Hybrid electric vehicle (bus). In 2010 they came up again with a new hybrid model. But these vehicles never commercialized because of lack of incentive from government incentive. Similarly Tata motors used Hybrid bus back in 2010 (Commonwealth Games), subsequently they came up with many more hybrid concept vehicles that never commercialized. Mahindra has electric vehicles that are commercialized.

If one goes through history then at least from 2006 there were works going on in this direction with a significant success. But due to the nature of this industry nothing is possible without the government incentive to commercialize these works. Even the FAME initiative of Government of India took 7 years to come in the first phase of industrialization.

The situation today is that given the right push these corporations can come up with models of Electric and Hybrid vehicles that can serve the Indian industry. These players have technology, have financial might to buy technology and expertise to commercialize. Its only a matter of time and correct push when this market becomes big and viable.

A similar effort was necessary for CNG sector since India has large reserve of CNG, and the firms were ready with technology to give India a better solution but in the wake of exploration of Shale gas option there was less interest to push in this direction.