Hybrid vehicles key to India’s electric shift, Schaeffler says

Hybrid cars are the immediate future for India, as infrastructure challenges means electric mobility will take longer to be adopted in the country, says auto industry player. — AFP

Hybrid vehicles are a better fit than battery-powered electric cars for India in the immediate future, given the nation’s shortcomings in EV infrastructure, according to the regional head of auto parts supplier Schaeffler AG.

"Hybrid vehicles will play an equally important role because they are able to address some of the immediate infrastructure challenges around e-mobility,” Dharmesh Arora, Schaeffler’s Asia Pacific chief executive officer, said in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Monday. "For electric mobility to become mainstream we could argue it will take some more years or longer than rest of the world.”