EV stakeholder platform to ramp up India’s electric mobility ecosystem
India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA), an Indian clean energy and technology alliance, is launching the India Electric Mobility Council (IEMC), a comprehensive electric mobility and electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure platform that aims to bolster the country’s electric mobility ecosystem.
The platform, which launched on 12 January 2023, is stated as an ‘all-inclusive, technology-agnostic platform’.
The platform aims to cater to EV ecosystem stakeholders, including EV OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers), component and equipment providers, fleet operators, battery technology providers, charging infrastructure and service providers, battery swapping companies and other key stakeholders.
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The IEMC will focus its activities on various areas, including:
- R&D and innovation in the EV space
- EV and related component manufacturing across all vehicle segments (2W, 3W, 4W, Bus and heavy-duty vehicles)
- charging infrastructure, EV adoption and EV fleet operation
- battery swapping, training and capacity building
- EV financing and taxation
- testing and safety
- standards and certification
- start-ups and investment
- urban air mobility and electric boats
- Vehicle to Grid (V2G)
- digitisation
India‘s EV ecosystem
Debi Prasad Dash, executive director, IESA, said on the platform’s launch, “The India Electric Mobility Council (IEMC) initiative by IESA is intended to explore opportunities for India to exploit the potential of R&D and manufacturing of e-mobility technologies and support quicker adoption of clean transport.”
Mr. Dash also added that IEMC aims to serve and support more than 100 EV and infra-related member companies to become the largest EV platform in India by the end of this year.
The platform comes in as the role of EVs within the energy transition becomes an ever more pertinent topic. The role of EVs is important not only in replacing Internal Combustion Engines (ICEs) – a known contributor to greenhouse gasses – but also in assisting with grid management.
V2G tech in particular opens up avenues for coordinating load control by operating EVs as ‘batteries on wheels’, thus allowing for peak load management when necessary.
Thus, the announcement from IESA illustrates the recognition and potential of EVs within the country.
According to the storage alliance, India is in the nascent stages of the EV revolution and EVs make up only 2% of the country’s automobile sales. However, there have been programmes like PLI, FAME and PMP, which aim to push the sale of EVs.
And so, alongside targets from the country’s Union and state government to increase EV adoption in the next decade, such a platform offers promise of exponential uptick in EV infrastructure and adoption.
