In the first significant step towards electrification of trucks, India has defined a technical roadmap for the deployment of ZETs which focuses on undertaking field research, reporting of trucks presently running across the country, expediting product development, designing tools to enable the successful implementation of pilot projects as well as identifying and modifying regulatory requirements. This has been done by a Consultative Group on eMobility (CGeM) formed by the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser in August last year.
The roadmap identifies the various technical actions required for the successful implementation of ZET in India and for each of these, a plan for executing them is given in the form of a methodology, the stakeholders to be dealt with, a rough-cut time plan for the various sub-actions that are to be carried out, and the overall budget for the action item. It estimates the need for Rs 850 crores over four years to implement this plan.
