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Government of India has planned to ban scooters and motorcycles under 150cc by 2025- Good or Bad

Government of India has planned to ban scooters and motorcycles under 150cc by 2025. While it seems a very ambitious plan it is impractical wanna know why let us see. Government has just baned BS-4 engine in October 2018 and caused a transition to BS-6 engine causing a heavy loss for companies as it was done in a hurry. Due to transition to BS-6 engine, the cost of vehicles has shot up and now this new rule. While having huge goals is good but one should think practically. Countries like the USA and China which are 10-15 years ahead of us are struggling to have all-electric vehicles fleet. By 2035 Volkswagen has announced that 50% of vehicles sold in China will be electrics. So that is 15.5 yrs from now and as of now only 3% of total vehicles of China is an electric vehicle. So the figures speak for themselves. Also, there are variant to E.V. and it is not like that, you have to choose between E.V. and petrol vehicles only, there are hybrids and mild hybrids which can be a target as