EV penetration: Joint capital Chandigarh beats Punjab & Haryana

BATHINDA: Even as both Punjab and Haryana are far from switching to electric vehicles for decarbonising their transport sector, their joint capital Chandigarh has converted at least its three-wheelers at good speed to get the second spot after Ladakh in the EV penetration race for this category.
EV penetration counts electric vehicles out of total vehicle sales.Ladakh has only 19 electric three-wheelers to Chandigarh’s 1,753, but while Ladakh’s EV penetration in this category is 100%, it’s 95.58% in Chandigarh, although the city has not found the same success for two-wheelers and four-wheelers. Its 3,852 EVs include 1,479 scooters and motorcycles, and 620 cars and buses.
Haryana with 3.8% penetration has 20,020 EVs, which include 4,936 two-wheelers, 13,118 three-wheelers, 1,911 four-wheelers, and 55 buses. Punjab with 3.68% penetration has 14,903 EVs, which include 5,182 two-wheelers, 9,310 three-wheelers, 359 four-wheelers, and 52 buses. The data is from the EV dashboard (wwwcleanmobilityshift.com/ev-dashboard/) that the country has developed with Clean Mobility Shift, Climate Trends and Climate Dot foundation for transparency in the e-mobility data gathering. The figure are available on some non-governmental websites also.
The dashboard highlights EV sales across the country in two, three, and four-wheeler categories, as well as electric bus class. It gets real-time data from the central government’s Vahan dashboard for the assessment of EV sales by category, state, year, and even month. It can compare the sales in different states, annual EV sales since 2014, and the EV penetration rates across all categories both collectively and individually.
Two-wheeler EVs include moped, motorcycle, scooter, and motorised bicycle above 25 cc, besides motorised scooter for hire. Electric three-wheelers are in the personal use, shared, shared low speed, goods vehicle, and low-speed goods vehicle categories. Electric four-wheelers include cars, cabs and cargo trucks. Buses includes coaches and institute buses.