WRI India in collaboration with Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, CEPT University is organising a two-day workshop on “Electrification of Public Transport” on 23-24th September 2019, Hotel Fortune Landmark, Ashram Road, Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The workshop is supported by Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation, New Delhi under the ‘Electric Mobility Forum’ initiative.
The workshop is a pre-event in preparation for the 12th Regional EST Forum in Asia, 28-31 October 2019 in Hanoi, Vietnam and is also supported by United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD).
“Many cities in India are looking to deploy electric buses but have virtually no capacity because of electric buses is not the same bus with different technology. It’s a different product altogether. The workshop will bring multiple cities and experts to facilitate a peer to peer learning for effective deployment.”
Amit Bhatt
Program Director – Sustainable Transport Project of WRI India
The workshop will start with discussing incentivising electric bus opportunity through FAME2, followed with how state governments can prepare their EV Policy Framework and EV Road Map. In the second session, the workshop will explore the challenges and opportunities of implementation of Ebuses across the country. The first day will end with the highlight of the day, a site visit to the eBus operations in Ahmedabad.
During the second day discussion on OEM Perspectives on E-Mobility will be put forth along with issues and challenges in Micro-Mobility option, business model and financing E-Mobility will be discussed, and the subject of the last session is future of E-Mobility in India.
“A transition towards electric mobility, especially for shared transport is the right choice for India as it offers several advantages and needs to recognise large scale transition to electric mobility, and this is not easy! Therefore, this workshop will be a platform to take the opportunity to have resources and knowledge exchange and help each other grow in the journey of EV adoption and make this transition for India smooth.”, says Shravani Sharma, Project Associate – Electric Vehicles (Infrastructure and Policy) at WRI India.
“We are thrilled to welcome all the EV enthusiasts to come, share, and learn everything that we need to know for Electric Bus adoption in India in this two day workshop”
Shravani Sharma
Project Associate – EV, WRI India
Interested EV enthusiasts, policy makers, academia, operators, and manufacturers, et al. are invited as delegates, and can send applications to Shravani.sharma@wri.org
