The Council on Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW) and the Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation (SSEF) are organizing a webinar on ‘Scaling local value-addition and jobs from EV manufacturing in India’ on 9 November 2020, 1430-1600 hrs. The sustained and faster electric mobility transition in India is dependent on developing a local manufacturing and supply chain, which will allow better control over Electric Vehicle components, and lower costs. This transformation is only possible through the collaborative efforts or all stakeholders and the webinar is expected to focus on this critical point.
The webinar will also look at strategies to increase the investments in the Electric Vehicle component manufacturing, the role of stable and long term policies. Two other major points of discussion will be the impact on the jobs of people who are working on the ICE manufacturing and the potential revenue loss for union and state governments from the fuel taxes, one of the major earning today. Rajiv Kumar, Vice Chairman of Niti Aayog will deliver the keynote address.
Jasmine Shah, Vice-Chairperson, Dialogue, and Development Commission, Govt of NCT of Delhi, Rashmi Urdhwareshe, Former Director, Automotive Research Association of India, Arindam Lahiri, CEO, Automotive Skills Development Council, Hemalatha Annamalai, Global Chair – TiE Women, Former CEO – Ampere Vehicles, Prashant Parida, Group Head – Marketing, Strategy & New Initiatives, Okaya Power Group, Ruchir Shukla, Director – Electric Mobility, Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation, and Himani Jain, Senior Programme Lead, CEEW will be the speakers.
The session will also mark the launch of their latest study 'Can Electric Mobility Support India's Sustainable Economic Recovery Post COVID-19?' CEEW in their previous study which is part of the series India's Electric Vehicle Transition analyzed the impact of 30% Electric Vehicle car sales in 2030 on the car manufacturing industry in India. In this current paper, CEEW explores the impact of the Electric Vehicle transition on India’s economic recovery in the COVID19 scenario.
The study examines the impact of a 30% EV sales share in 2030 on domestic value-addition, jobs, crude oil imports, revenue generated from taxes, local pollution, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In addition, the study quantifies these impacts in different mode-share scenarios – high public transport scenario, high private vehicle scenario, and shared mobility scenario.
