The demand and range of electric cars is increasing in India.

The sales of electric vehicles in the country are increasing in an unprecedented manner.

Also the question whether the necessary infrastructure for this has been prepared in India?

If you only have the means to buy one car, are you sure you can buy an electric car?

Or are you worried about where and how you will charge your car?

Service center nearby or not?

We have brought answers to these questions in this report.

Sales of electric vehicles are increasing rapidly in the country.

According to the Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles, the total sales of electric two-wheelers, three-wheelers, electric cars and electric buses in 2020-21 were 1,39,060, which increased to 8,44,192 in 2022-23 by January 9, 2023.

That is, in the last two years, the sales of electric vehicles have increased by more than 507% i.e. more than five times!

But, now questions are also arising whether the necessary support infrastructure is ready in the country for the increasing number of electric vehicles?

Questions are also being raised regarding the charging stations required for electric vehicles, measures for their safety and safety standards to their cost.

Is the support infrastructure ready for electric vehicles in the country?

Is the EV ecosystem ready?

There is also a question in people's mind that are there enough charging stations?

Whether to change the battery.

Will it be easy to buy?

Will it cost more to drive an electric car?

Ajay Sharma, Secretary General, Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles told NDTV that there are many challenges regarding the electric vehicle.

We have a special concern about the infrastructure that if we take the electric vehicle out of the city, what will have to be done for charging?

We have discussed the battery swapping policy with the government.

It is expected that the government will soon announce the battery swapping policy.

There is also the issue of battery manufacturing.

It is necessary to have a policy for battery manufacturing in our country.

There should also be a policy for sourcing lithium ion which is the raw material.

We have to import more lithium from outside countries.

DD Goyal, Executive Director Finance of Maruti Suzuki and member of the Taxation Committee of the Confederation of Indian Industry, says that it will be necessary to further increase the infrastructure in the automobile sector.

For this, the government will have to address some issues related to tax. 

Different segments of the automobile sector have different tax rates.

For example, ready electric vehicles attract 5 per cent GST while batteries attract 18 per cent GST.

There are such disparities in the automobile sector, there are different taxes on different parts.

The government should remove it.

Maruti Suzuki Ltd.

DD Goyal, executive director of CII and member of CII's National Committee on Finance and Tax, told NDTV, this is called inverted duty structure in our language.

That is, the tax rate on input is high and the tax rate on output is low.

There are some places where the input tax rate is high, on which the Association (Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers) has requested that auto parts on which the tax rate, if any, is high, should be reduced so that there is no accumulation of input credit. 

Goyal says that the budget is about to be presented.

The government will have to create such an environment that customers buy more and more vehicles.

For this, it will be necessary that the customer has disposable income.

Goyal told NDTV that the government should reduce the overall tax burden on customers.

Inflation keeps increasing every year.

It is necessary that the ceiling of tax exemption should keep increasing according to the inflation rate.

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