{"id":169275,"date":"2022-02-17T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=169275"},"modified":"2022-02-17T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T14:45:00","slug":"battery-swapping-policy-to-level-the-playing-field-for-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/battery-swapping-policy-to-level-the-playing-field-for-operators\/","title":{"rendered":"Battery swapping policy to level the playing field for operators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Niti Aayog will hold pre-draft stakeholder consultations to invite feedback from industry participants on the government\u2019s upcoming electric vehicle (EV) battery swapping policy.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Battery Swapping?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/can-battery-swapping-power-evs-for-the-long-term-in-a-cost-effective-way\/\"><b>Click Here to read about it<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>What will be the focus of the Battery Swapping Policy?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Policy will focus on creating a comprehensive framework including regulatory operational and technical elements to incentivize battery swapping.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Initially, it will focus on battery swap services for three-wheeled auto-rickshaws and two-wheelers such as electric scooters and motorcycles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EV owners may also get incentives of up to 20% on the subscription or lease cost of the battery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, as part of the policy, NITI Aayog will work with the Bureau of Indian Standards and the Department of Science and Technology(DST) to develop technical standards for batteries.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the demands of the energy service providers from the Government?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Firstly, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Government needs to balance standardization and innovation to ensure that there is room for technologies and business models to evolve in this sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Secondly, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the battery swapping space has to be ironed out of anomalies such as higher GST on separate batteries (18% versus 5% for EVs).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Thirdly, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Government should extend FAME-II subsidies to battery swapping operators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source<\/b>: This post is based on the article <b>\u201cBattery swapping policy to level the playing field for operators\u201d<\/b> published in <b>Livemint <\/b>on <b>17th Feb 2022.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Niti Aayog will hold pre-draft stakeholder consultations to invite feedback from industry participants on the government\u2019s upcoming electric vehicle (EV) battery swapping policy. What is Battery Swapping? Click Here to read about it What will be the focus of the Battery Swapping Policy? The Policy will focus on creating a comprehensive&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/battery-swapping-policy-to-level-the-playing-field-for-operators\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Battery swapping policy to level the playing field for operators<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10501],"class_list":["post-169275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-live-mint","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704822892},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}