Electric car market is growing in India, Bangalore is leading in sales

The electric car market in India is gradually growing. Considering the advantages of electric cars being environment friendly, not running on fossil fuels like petrol and diesel and being easy to maintain, Indian customers are now leaning towards electric cars. In India, Bangalore has emerged as a city that is at the forefront in adopting electric cars. Bangalore has also surpassed cities like Delhi, Mumbai and Pune in this matter.
Last year in 2023, 8,690 electric cars were sold in Bangalore. Earlier, 2,479 units of electric cars were sold in the city in 2022, which shows a year-on-year growth of 121.2 percent. This data is encouraging for the manufacturers and sellers of electric cars in India.
According to the automotive business intelligence firm, a total of 87,927 units of electric cars were registered across India last year, marking a year-on-year growth of 143.7 per cent as compared to 2022. Delhi stood second in terms of the number of total electric car registrations in 2023, registering sales of 8,211 units. Hyderabad stood third, Mumbai fourth and Pune fifth in this order.
Why are electric cars special?
Electric vehicles have very low maintenance costs as compared to vehicles running on fossil fuels like petrol and diesel because they do not have many moving parts like internal combustion vehicles. Servicing requirements for electric vehicles are also less as compared to conventional petrol or diesel vehicles. Due to this, the annual cost of running an electric vehicle is very low which is going to provide relief from the ever increasing petrol and diesel prices. Being environment friendly, electric vehicles are also called the vehicles of the future.