According to the World Health Organisation, for the year 2016,
more than 25 Indian cities are within the 100 most polluted cities
in the World1. The State of Global Air 2017 report
quotes that India accounts for the second highest number of
premature deaths due to air pollution in the world2. On
2nd May 2018, India Today's headlines read
as3, "According to the report of World Health
Organisation, about 90 percent of the world's population is
exposed to dangerous levels of pollution and 14 of world's 15
most polluted cities are in India." In a view to minimize
the ill effects of pollutions, policy makers of India have been
strongly promoting the idea of electric vehicles.
Simply put, electric vehicles, unlike a normal car which uses
diesel/petrol, uses energy stored in its rechargeable batteries to
run. There are mainly three types of electric vehicles; hybrid
electric vehicles, which are powered by both petrol and
electricity; plug-in hybrid electric vehicles; and
