Electric vehicles to save $60 bn in fuel costs by 2030: Niti

TIL Desk/Business/New Delhi/ Accelerated adoption of electric and shared vehicles could save USD 60 billion in diesel and petrol costs while cutting down as much as 1 gigatonne (GT) of carbon emissions for India by 2030, says a joint report released today by Niti Aayog.

It said however that the country faces challenges that signal the “gravitational pull of privately owned vehicles”. The report estimates that India can conservatively save up to 64 per cent of anticipated passenger mobilitity-related energy demand and 37 per cent of carbon emission by 2030.

“By 2030, this would result in an annual diesel and petrol reduction of 156 million tonnes of oil equivalent,” said the report, ‘India Leaps Ahead: Transformative Mobility Solution’, produced by NITI Aayog and Rock Mountain Institute.

“At current oil prices, this would imply a net usual fuel cost saving of approximately 3.9 lakh crore by 2030,” the report added. Releasing the report, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said whether ones likes it or not electric vehicles (EVs) will happen in India and this is inevitable.