3rd Private Car Must Be EV: Delhi Government Proposal

Capital's electric push Policy proposes to achieve 98% new vehicle registration by 2030

- Snehil Sinha

NEW DELHI: The third private car purchased in every Delhi household must be an electric vehicle, no fossil fuel-run three-wheelers will be registered from August this year and no non-electric two-wheeler will be allowed to register from August 2026, the state government is likely to stipulate as part of its ambitious Electric Vehicles Policy 2.0, according to officials aware of the matter.

Delhi transport minister Pankaj Kumar Singh has approved the policy in principle and it will now be presented to the cabinet, one of the officials said.

"The new policy has some bold targets aimed at ensuring EV transition in every vehicle segment. In some categories, we hope that we will be able to achieve 100% new vehicles being registered are EVs in Delhi. We have also developed strategies around how this will be done," a senior transport official, not wishing to be named, said.

Registration of petrol, diesel or CNG-run two-wheelers will not be allowed from August 2026, said the policy, a copy of which was accessed by HT.

For the three-wheeler segment, all CNG autorickshaws over 10 years old will be mandatorily replaced or retrofitted with electric autorickshaws during the policy period.