RANGE ANXIETY IS a real thing.
Electric vehicle drivers experience it even when they have enough charge to comfortably reach their destination.
Automakers, however, seem to have no such anxiety. They are pretty sure that they will culminate the journey they had embarked on a while ago a shift from internal combustion engine vehicles to electric vehicles. "The question has evolved from 'why electric?' to 'which electric?' marking a fundamental transformation," said Santosh Iyer, managing director and CEO of Mercedes-Benz India.
With very few exceptions (a Tata Sierra here and a Skoda Kodiaq there), all the major passenger vehicle launches at the recent Bharat Mobility Global Expo were electric.
And two of them-the Maruti Suzuki eVitara and the Hyundai Creta Electric (it was revealed a few days earlier but the prices were announced at the Expo)-could be the change agents in the Indian automobile industry's shift to an electric future.
The zeal is almost ironic, though, as EVs are few and far between on the Indian roads. The total sales of electric passenger vehicles in India in 2024 were a tad below one lakh units. That is just a fraction (about 2.3 per cent) of the 43 lakh passenger vehicles sold in the year.
Electric two-wheelers are marginally better off. Of the 1.8 crore two-wheelers sold in the year, about 11.8 lakh were electric (6.5 per cent).
Electric two-wheeler sales are growing faster as well. Their sales jumped 33 per cent in 2024 from the previous year, while electric car sales grew just about 20 per cent.
The other large car markets-China and the US-have been doing much better. China sold 1.1 crore electric cars in 2024, nearly half of all cars sold. The US sold 19 lakh hybrid vehicles and 13 lakh all-electric vehicles in the year-put together about 20 per cent of the total sales in the year.
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