Ambitious e-car programme of Energy Efficiency Services has a slow start

According to EESL, the cars that have been leased so far have cumulatively run a million kilometres

The ambitious e-car programme of Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) has had a slow start with less than one-tenth of the proposed 10,000 cars hitting the road so far. The firm, which is leasing these cars to government departments, said delays happened due to the time taken in various approvals on the ground.

“We should have had more than a thousand cars deployed by now. But we have less. The registration process for an electric vehicle is different and we did not realise this. Nobody had registered so many cars for a government department at one time. We have to