ICE AGE GIVES WAY TO EVERA

2025 will be the turning point for India's auto industry, as electric vehicles surge mainstream with fierce competition among top players

- YOGENDRA PRATAP

2025 will probably be that watershed year which historians will bookmark as the dawn of the EV era in this country. And no, it will not be because Tesla will finally make it to India nor will it be because the Chinese car makers will overrun the Indian car industry like they are poised to do the world over with their EVs. It will be because the top 5 car makers in the country, representing nearly 90 per cent of the passenger car industry, will all have attractive EVs on sale. And some of them putting their very first EV on the market. The companies sixth and seventh on the list already have EVs in their portfolio that they will be further expanding. Leaving Honda and Jeep aside, the rest of the companies also already have, or will have, EVs on the market in 2025, as will newcomers like VinFast.