Nearly 400,000 electric vehicles in India, UP leads race, Delhi at 2nd spot

However, the actual number of electric vehicles could be much more as a lot of e-rickshaws operate without any registration

Electric vehicles are slowly, but evidently, becoming the flavour of the season. The Narendra Modi government has set an ambitious target of converting 15 per cent of the total vehicles in the country to electric by 2024. But how many electric vehicles do we even have currently? According to the transport ministry, nearly 400,000 registered electric vehicles run in India, reported The Times of India. 

Uttar Pradesh leads the electric race with nearly 139,000 battery-operated vehicles, followed by 76,000 e-vehicles in Delhi, according to Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari. The third and fourth spot is grabbed