(31 Aug 2023)
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Bengaluru, India – 5 June 2023
1. Wide of delivery vehicle turning onto road
2. Tight of Santhosh Kumar driving his vehicle
3. SOUNDBITE (Tamil) Santhosh Kumar, electric rickshaw delivery driver:
“I deliver grocery items for homes.”
4. Medium of interior of delivery vehicle
5. Detail of steering handle and horn
6. SOUNDBITE (Tamil) Santhosh Kumar, electric rickshaw delivery driver:
“Driving an EV is good because there is no emissions, engine oil is not needed, no repair work is needed, so it’s really good.”
7. Various of Santhosh Kumar charging his vehicle
8. SOUNDBITE (Tamil) Santhosh Kumar, electric rickshaw delivery driver:
“I know roughly how long the vehicle will ride, I reach a charger at a gas pump or somewhere else nearby just before the charge runs out, recharge the vehicle for a while and then continue.”
9. Various wide drone of delivery vehicle driving through streets ++MUTE++
10. Wide drone of traffic in Bengaluru ++MUTE++
11. SOUNDBITE (English) N.C. Thirumalai, sector head, strategic studies, Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy:
“Three drivers for electric mobility growth in India, is one, to start was the government policies. Second is the manufacturing sector also seamlessly supporting those policies coming up with brands of electric vehicles. Third, also from a customer point of view if you look at it the cost-effectiveness from an operation point-of-view, the savings they get given the fuel prices that are raising, the savings that they get, these are the primary drivers of growth for the electric vehicle segment in India.”
12. Various of workers loading delivery vehicles
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Puneet Prakash, co-founder and CEO, City Link:
“Our fossil fuels, all said and done, it’s tough to control the price of those fuels and they, so you are left to the varies of the international movement of crude, how it behaves. Suddenly, your business becomes viable or unviable because there’s so much fluctuation and so much volatility, that’s one point. Then second is, the associated pollution, et cetera, that it brings along side. With EVs, we do away with all of this.”
14. Wide of Santhosh Kumar opening his delivery vehicle
15. Wide of Santhosh Kumar delivering groceries
16. Wide of delivery vehicle driving through street
17. SOUNDBITE (Tamil) Santhosh Kumar, electric rickshaw delivery driver:
“Putting gas, maintaining your own vehicle is a lot of work. So working in such a company gives me a lot of benefit, my family is happy.”
18. Wide of Santhosh Kumar carrying a delivery
19. Wide of Santhosh Kumar closing his delivery vehicle
STORYLINE:
India is one of the fastest growing electric vehicle markets in the world and now has millions of EV owners. More than 90% of its 2.3 million electric vehicles are the cheaper and more popular two- or three-wheelers — that’s motorbikes, scooters and rickshaws — and over half of India’s three-wheeler registrations in 2022 were electric, according to an IEA report released in April.
A $1.3 billion federal government scheme to encourage EV manufacturing in the country and provide discounts for customers, rising fuel costs over the past decade and consumer awareness of the long-term cost benefits are driving up sales, analysts say.
Santhosh Kumar, 23, an electric rickshaw delivery driver for Bengaluru-based logistics company City Link, can also feel the benefits of making the switch.
Since going electric, “the vehicle never breaks down and there are a lot of charging points all around so I never run out of charge,” said Kumar.
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