Overview

• NITI Aayog has begun a comprehensive life-cycle emissions assessment of electric, hybrid and conventional vehicles, with results expected in the coming months
• Maruti Suzuki India and Toyota Kirloskar are lobbying state governments for the same clean-mobility subsidies granted to pure EVs under FAME-II and PM E-DRIVE
• Tata Motors and Mahindra & Mahindra maintain that incentives should remain exclusive to zero-emission electric vehicles
• Chhattisgarh recently removed incentives for hybrid models and Delhi deferred enforcement of its EV policy until March 2026
• Chairman BVR Subrahmanyam has indicated the central government has limited scope for allocating further clean-mobility subsidies