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🌟 Accelerating Haryana's EV Adoption 🌟 The International Council on Clean Transportation in collaboration with Transport Department, Government of Haryana, held a stakeholder convening with senior leaders from the state and city governments, industry representatives and civil society organisations "Accelerating Haryana's EV Adoption" in Chandigarh on 24th July. ♻ 🚛 🚜 🔌 Read more about the event here. #Haryana #HaryanaTransport #CleanTransport #Etruck #ElectricTractor #EV Amit Bhatt | Anandi M 🌱 | Palak Thakur | Lavnish Goyal | Anirudh Narla| Krithika P R | Vaibhav Kush | Kshitij Rampotra | Aravind Harikumar | Almas Naseem | Ashok Deo | Bhaumik Gowande | Shikha Rokadiya | Bharat Bhatt

The International Council on Clean Transportation in partnership with Government of Haryana, Transport Department held a convening with stakeholders on accelerating Haryana's #EV adoption ♻ 🚜 🚚 🔌 on 24th July, 2024. "Haryana’s EV policy was the first to include #Tractors for demand incentives. Gurugram and Faridabad could be the lighthouse cities that can power the electrification of the rest of the state" Amit Bhatt, India Managing Director, The International Council on Clean Transportation. Panchkula additional deputy commissioner (ADC) SACHIN GUPTA shared that the conference has opened doors for conversations between the government and private sector for better policy adoption which will enhance Haryana’s #electrification journey. Read more in story by Hindustan Times! #EV #ElectricTractor #Haryana #ElectricTruck #ElectricVehicles Palak Thakur | Lavnish Goyal | Anandi M 🌱 | Aravind Harikumar| Vaibhav Kush| Anirudh Narla | Krithika P R| Kshitij Rampotra

While most tier-1 Indian cities are grappling with air pollution, cities are mostly taking reactive planning measures for the same. Out of all the harmful pollutants, PM 2.5 is linked with various health issues among the young, elderly and vulnerable population. In cities like Pune, and Pimpri Chinchwad almost 50% of the PM2.5 comes from vehicular emissions.   Proactive measures like Low Emission Mobility Zones (LEMZ), can help curb vehicular emission load, and thus, in the long run, can help reduce PM 2.5 by almost 85% in the above-mentioned cities. Low Emission Mobility Zones can be a great tool to curb vehicular emissions (cut tailpipe emissions at source), and improve alternate sustainable mobility solutions like Public Transport along with Walking and Cycling for people to shift to cleaner modes of transport.   The Maharashtra #EVPolicy has identified #LEZ as a key strategy for its journey towards adopting cleaner modes of transport and has identified six target cities (Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Nashik, Chh Sambhajinagar, & Amravati) to push LEZ along with other EV policy goals.   ITDP - India and ICCT India have been supporting three Maharashtrian cities - Pune, Pimpri Chinchwad and Chh. Sambhajinagar (Chh. Sambhajinagar supported with Urban Research Foundation), in strategizing for LEMZ and planning a roadmap. Do read the HT article to understand how three Maharashtrian cities are approaching the LEMZ.  https://lnkd.in/dF_apvN8 Thanks, Badri Chatterjee for talking with us, and coming up with this comprehensive article! LEZ is the need of the hour to curb vehicular pollution and provide the right to breathe clean air! Parin Visariya Pranjal Kulkarni Aswathy Dilip Sivasubramaniam Jayaraman Kashmira Dubash Aangi Shah Amit Bhatt Vaibhav Kush Moorthy Nair Urban Research Foundation Shrinivas Deshmukh Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs MoEF&CC

☘ #LowEmissionZone or #LEZs in Maharashtra ☘ To combat #AirPollution and set a benchmark for #Urban areas across India, three cities in Maharashtra — Pune, Pimpri Chinchwad, and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (formerly Aurangabad) — will establish low emission zones (LEZ) by 2026, marking a first for the country. Read the story by Badri Chatterjee in Hindustan Times quoting Vaibhav Kush and Moorthy Nair from The International Council on Clean Transportation. ICCT is helping in assessing and identify LEZs in the state. #CleanAir #CleanTransport

After the Union Budget was revealed yesterday, it is clear that the government of India has adopted a raft of green measures to meet its 2070 goal of net zero and enhance the speed towards it. Here's Amit Bhatt for Outlook Publishing (India) Pvt. Ltd. talking about the announcements around electric vehicles. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gU7KQgWP

What is #BatterySwapping 🔋 and how can it potentially improve overall efficiency while reducing infrastructure constraints for #ElectricBuses 🚌?    Bhaumik Gowande answers this in our latest blog, which includes details about how separating batteries from buses dramatically reduces the bus's capital cost because swapping operators own the batteries instead of the bus owner.  

Nikita Pavlenko, Program Lead, Fuels, The International Council on Clean Transportation, at the webinar "Towards #NetZero: Exploring Pathways for Heavy Duty Vehicles in India" shared how the recent ICCT paper that he co-authored (https://lnkd.in/eK8UxgMn) showed that #Electrification of trucks 🚛 ♻ in India is a “no regret solution.” The webinar was hosted by The International Council on Clean Transportation in partnership with ETAuto   📹 To watch the webinar's recording, click here: https://lnkd.in/gfv4AKKk    More about the webinar: https://lnkd.in/gRNy-EZv     #ElectricTruck #Etruck #CleanTransport Amit Bhatt | Aviral Yadav | Namita Singh, PhD | Anandi M 🌱 | Ashok Deo | Aravind Harikumar | Sumati Kohli | Anirudh Narla | Vaibhav Kush | Shikha Rokadiya

What is #BatterySwapping 🔋 and how can it potentially improve overall efficiency while reducing infrastructure constraints for #ElectricBuses 🚌?    Bhaumik Gowande, Associate Researcher at the ICCT, answers this in our latest blog, which includes details about how separating batteries from buses dramatically reduces the bus's capital cost because swapping operators own the batteries instead of the bus owner.  

🌟 2nd edition of #Flixtalk on behalf of Flix Bus in India Bhaumik Gowande and Krithika P R from The International Council on Clean Transportation attended the insightful discussion on upcoming budget to accelerate green and #Smart mobility across India's passenger vehicle segments hosted by Surya Khurana and Jit Shankar Banerjee. The session emphasized the importance of incorporating learnings from #FAME 1 & 2 into FAME 3 to benefit a wider range of stakeholders. Bhaumik and Krithika highlighted the necessary technological and financial interventions to scale #ElectricBus adoption, innovative models to make technology more accessible for all. As India races towards its #COP26 decarbonization targets 🌿🚗, this upcoming budget is crucial for the mobility sector. Investments to support #GreenerFuels and smart technologies will support India's decarbonization goals and foster innovation and economic growth. 🌍🚀 #GreenMobility #ElectricVehicles #SustainableTransport #Innovation #EconomicGrowth   Flix | Amit Bhatt | Anandi M 🌱 | Prerna Yadav | Palak Thakur | Aravind Harikumar | Ashok Deo | Anirudh Narla | Kshitij Rampotra | Sumati Kohli | Shikha Rokadiya

Anumita Roychowdhury, Executive Director of Research and Advocacy at the Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi and Board Member at The International Council on Clean Transportation, at the webinar "Towards Net Zero: Exploring Pathways for Heavy Duty Vehicles in India" suggested to prioritize investments for the #EV Sector that resembles future pathways around the #ZEVs (#ZeroEmission vehicles). The webinar was hosted by The International Council on Clean Transportation in partnership with ETAuto      To watch the webinar's recording, click here: https://lnkd.in/gfv4AKKk    More about the webinar: https://lnkd.in/gRNy-EZv     #ElectricTruck #Etruck #CleanTransport Amit Bhatt | Sumantra Bibhuti Barooah- ETAuto | Dr. Hanif Qureshi, IPS | IV Rao | Sunil Bhatnagar | Nikita Pavlenko | Aviral Yadav | Namita Singh, PhD | Ashok Deo