lIt is not only for Environment which is primarily a Global issue and India is a part of it. Most importantly India aims to reduce its import dependency on diesel petrol which is currently stands at 90% of our requirement and that too uncertainty of availability due to Geo-political situations all the time and price volatility.
It is not a transition that is going to take place all of a sudden…EV will co-exist together Along with biofuels . EV is expensive to own and everyone can not afford to buy EV without Govt subsidy, It also has an import content of rare earth elements, And the recent life cycle study on carbon foot print indicates no appreciable improvement in carbon emissions.
Today, 85% vehicles being produced in india are still petrol diesel 12 % may be CNG and 2% may be EV.
it makes sense and it is logical.that if we can run these existing IC engine vehicles with blend of renewable Bio fuels such as Ethanol, Bio diesel & CBG In place of CNG to the maximum extent possible without any engine modification. But for flex fuel hybrids some engine modification would be required ( on the same platform of IC engine without major expensive alterations ).
Therefore my take is that Bio fuels such as Bio-Ethanol 1G/2G, CBG/LBG, CNG/LNG all will coexists together along with EV for quite some time.
Our import dependency on diesel petrol will gradually come down.
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