BLOG: Vehicle electrification in India: On ambition and timing

India

May 24

Written By WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

This is the fourth blog in ICCT’s series focused on their meta-study of India’s road transport emissions analyses.

In the previous blog, we found two kinds of trajectories in the mitigation scenarios, one where road transport emissions continue to rise until 2050 and another where emissions peak by 2030 or 2040 and then decline. Models in the first group consider conservative levels of electrification and modest efficiency improvements, while models in the other group assume ambitious electrification and efficiency improvements extending up until mid-century. It’s pretty clear that electrification is a key component of any future in which the growth in transport emissions is reversed and thus: How much electrification is needed across vehicle classes and is there any reason for delay?

To view the full blog click here.

International Council on Clean Transportation

WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities is World Resources Institute’s program dedicated to shaping a future where cities work better for everyone. It enables more connected, compact and coordinated cities. The Center expands the transport and urban development expertise of the EMBARQ network to catalyze innovative solutions in other sectors, including air quality, water, buildings, land use and energy. It combines the research excellence of WRI with two decades of on-the-ground impact through a network of more than 320 experts working from Brazil, China, Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Mexico, Turkey and the United States to make cities around the world better places to live. More information at www.wrirosscities.org.

http://wrirosscities.org