Decarbonizing India’s Road Freight: Toward A Cleaner, Greener, and Electric Future for Commercial Vehicles

The document outlines a set of strategic recommendations for decarbonizing India's road freight sector based on consultations with over 20 industry experts. Key priorities include the implementation of production-linked subsidies, the development of viable financing structures for smaller lenders, and the creation of specific use cases to demonstrate the viability of electric freight vehicles in Indian conditions. The paper argues that India is well-positioned to lead commercial vehicle electrification due to its evolving domestic ecosystem and significant freight corridors, provided there is sufficient policy and regulatory support.

• Stakeholders recommend a combination of policy, regulatory, and financial interventions to accelerate the transition to electric road freight, specifically suggesting production-linked subsidies to reduce costs for manufacturers and businesses.
• To scale electrification, the sector needs new technologies, standardized processes, viable business models, and financing structures that allow smaller lenders to enter the fleet electrification market.
• India's growth in urbanization and e-commerce has increased emissions, which constitute the majority of the country's total transport emissions, but the nation's freight corridors and domestic ecosystem position it to lead in commercial vehicle electrification.

APA

World Resources Institute (2022). Decarbonizing India’s Road Freight: Toward A Cleaner, Greener, and Electric Future for Commercial Vehicles. https://www.wri.org/research/decarbonizing-indias-road-freight

Chicago

World Resources Institute. Decarbonizing India’s Road Freight: Toward A Cleaner, Greener, and Electric Future for Commercial Vehicles. 2022. https://www.wri.org/research/decarbonizing-indias-road-freight.

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitute2022decarbonizing, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{Decarbonizing India’s Road Freight: Toward A Cleaner, Greener, and Electric Future for Commercial Vehicles}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, year = {2022}, month = jun, url = {https://www.wri.org/research/decarbonizing-indias-road-freight}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }