Overview

By Suyyog Kellusskar | Senior Director – Industrial Goods & Services, 1Lattice

“Policy is not the end of a journey — it is the starting pistol. The real race is in execution.”

 

Framing the Moment

Delhi isn’t just India’s capital. It’s the country’s most closely watched urban experiment — and nowhere is that scrutiny sharper than on how the city moves. Nearly a quarter of Delhi’s winter air pollution comes from vehicles. Two-wheelers alone make up 67% of the total vehicle stock. That’s not a footnote. That’s the problem.

Against this backdrop, the Delhi EV Policy 2026–2030 arrives not as a gentle nudge but as a firm push. Published on April 11, 2026, with a 30-day public feedback window currently open, this four-year framework is more than a subsidy document. It’s a regulatory statement, a commercial signal to OEMs, and — if executed well — a genuine reform agenda for how India’s most polluted capital gets around.

I’ve spent the better part of two decades advising automotive and industrial businesses through structural change. I’ve read a lot of policy documents in that time. This one, I read not just as a brief but as a strategic map. Some contours are clear and well-drawn. Others are conspicuously blank. Here’s what I found.

The Architecture of the Policy — What’s Been Built

A Policy That Has Learned From Its Predecessor

The Delhi EV Policy 2020 was the right idea, poorly delivered. Subsidies were slow to reach buyers, charging infrastructure stayed patchy, and a genuine demand-side push was never matched by any obligation on the supply side. The 2026 policy has clearly absorbed those lessons.

Four things stand out as meaningful improvements.

The shift to direct benefit transfer (DBT) is the most consequential structural change. Removing the dealer from the subsidy chain reduces leakage, cuts delay, and closes a long-standing mis-selling loophole. In my experience, the gap between policy announcement and the moment a buyer actually realises the benefit has been one of the most reliable demand killers in India’s EV story. DBT doesn’t fix everything — but it fixes the right thing first.

The year-wise declining incentive structure for two-wheelers (starting at 10,000/kWh in Year 1, tapering to ?3,300/kWh in Year 3) is economically sensible. Front-load the stimulus, drive volume, and let cost curves do the rest. China’s NEV policy used exactly this logic; it worked.

The alignment with PM E-DRIVE reduces the compliance headache for OEMs juggling multiple incentive stacks. That said, there’s a critical tension buried in this claim. PM E-DRIVE’s L5 three-wheeler (e-auto) incentive category closed on December 26, 2025. There’s currently no central subsidy for new L5 registrations. So when Delhi says it “aligns” with PM E-DRIVE for e-autos, it’s describing a bridge with traffic flowing in only one direction. The INR 50,000 state incentive is now the only formal support layer for the segment the mandate targets most urgently. The Ministry of Heavy Industries and GNCTD need to address this gap — before the January 2027 deadline arrives.

And then the most consequential provision of all: hard electrification mandates. Only electric three-wheelers from January 2027. Only electric two-wheelers from April 2028. These aren’t aspirational targets. They’re deadlines — and they have real teeth.

The Scrapping Incentive as a Demand Multiplier

The scrapping incentive provisions in Section 4.6 deserve more attention than they’ll probably get. For electric cars priced below INR 30 lakh, a INR 1,00,000 scrapping incentive is on offer to the first 1,00,000 eligible applicants — provided they scrap a Delhi-registered BS-IV or below vehicle and buy within six months of the Certificate of Deposit.

This is smart design. It simultaneously drives fleet renewal and polluter removal. The six-month window creates urgency without being punitive. The 1,00,000 applicant cap contains the fiscal risk while still addressing a meaningful slice of the addressable market.

For the entry-level electric car segment — where Tata Motors currently dominates — this Rs1 lakh boost, stacked on top of road tax and registration fee exemptions for sub-INR 30 lakh EVs, could close the effective ownership cost gap with ICE vehicles to near-zero in Year 1. That’s not a minor incentive. That’s a genuine purchase trigger.

The Infrastructure Play — DTL as Nodal Agency

One of the most persistent failure modes in Indian EV infrastructure policy has been accountability diffusion — too many agencies with overlapping turf and no single entity actually responsible. The 2026 policy takes a swing at this by designating Delhi Transco Limited (DTL) as the nodal agency for all public EV charging and battery swapping infrastructure, covering planning, site selection, SOP development, digital portal management, and single-window clearance.

The design logic is right. Whether DTL has the organisational muscle to execute at the speed and scale this mandate demands is the open question — one I’ll return to. But at least the accountability is clear, which is already an improvement on the status quo.

The policy also establishes a High-Powered Committee under the Chief Secretary, pulling together Transport, Power, Finance, Environment, and the DISCOMs. That’s the right room of people. Getting them to move in the same direction, at the same speed, is the hard part.

Positive Impacts — What This Policy Gets Right

A Structural Demand Floor for Two-Wheeler and Three-Wheeler OEMs

For India’s leading EV players — TVS Motor (now the e-2W market leader with ~23% share in CY2025), Bajaj Chetak (~25%), Ather Energy (fast-rising), Hero Vida (a genuine breakout with 196% YoY growth in FY2026), and the three-wheeler leaders like Mahindra Electric and Piaggio — this policy delivers something money can’t buy - regulatory certainty.

The January 2027 ICE ban on three-wheelers and the April 2028 ban on two-wheelers aren’t distant aspirations. They’re 9 and 24 months away from notification, respectively. That proximity changes capital allocation decisions, product roadmaps, dealer transition timelines, and battery supply chain commitments in ways that a subsidy alone never could.

It’s worth understanding the market this mandate lands in. It’s not a stable oligopoly waiting for a regulatory windfall. TVS ended Ola Electric’s three-year run at the top in CY2025, while Ola’s sales fell 51% year-on-year. By March 2026, Ather was selling over 35,000 units a month while Ola had fallen to just over 10,000. The Delhi mandate arrives into a market that’s already being reordered by competition, product quality, and service execution. Regulatory tailwind helps — but it doesn’t substitute for getting the basics right.

For auto component manufacturers supplying ICE-specific parts — carburetors, fuel injection systems, exhausts, clutch assemblies — this policy is an existential signal. Delhi alone matters. If this template cascades to Bengaluru, Mumbai, and Hyderabad — all of which are watching — the ICE aftermarket runway shortens dramatically.

Environmental Credibility — Finally, With Teeth

Two-wheelers have always been the hardest segment to electrify. They’re price-sensitive. Their buyers are often first-time vehicle owners or daily income earners who can’t absorb upfront cost premiums. Subsidy alone has never been enough to move this segment at scale.

By layering purchase incentives (up to INR 30,000 in Year 1), scrapping incentives (INR 10,000), and a firm registration mandate, this policy builds a triple-layer demand stack with a real chance of inflecting the adoption curve. This is a more sophisticated approach than anything Delhi has tried before.

The Environment Department’s mandate to periodically quantify and publish emission reductions using a transparent methodology is also worth noting. It creates a feedback loop for policy refinement and — perhaps more importantly — gives Delhi credible data to present in international climate discussions. India’s NDC commitments under the Paris Agreement need demonstrable urban wins. A well-documented Delhi EV transition could be one.

The Government Fleet Mandate — A B2B Opportunity the Market Is Under-Reading

Section 8.5 is generating less excitement than it deserves. From the date of notification, all hired and leased vehicles for GNCTD must be electric. All new intra-state buses inducted by Delhi Transport Corporation must be electric. All new N1 trucks purchased by government departments, MCD, NDMC, Delhi Cantonment Board, and related bodies must also be electric.

That’s a substantial and predictable procurement pipeline for EV OEMs in the commercial vehicle and bus segment — Tata Motors, Olectra Greentech, JBM Auto. For fleet management, telematics, and charging-as-a-service providers, it’s a bankable anchor client — exactly the kind of foundation needed to build private sector fleet conversion business cases.

Battery Recycling — A Small Step With Large Implications

The provisions in Section 7 on battery recycling — EPR compliance mandates, SOPs for waste battery management, PPP-model battery collection centres — are modest in scope but significant in signal. India’s battery recycling sector is nascent. As EV volumes grow, the materials economics of lithium recovery become increasingly compelling.

For investors and consultants tracking the EV value chain, battery second-life and recycling is arguably the next major value pool to crystallise. The 2026 policy begins to lay the formal groundwork — even if the full industrial architecture is still years away.

Critical Gaps — Where the Policy Falls Short

The Private Car Problem — A Significant Omission

Let’s be direct about the most glaring gap in this policy: there is no electrification mandate for private passenger cars. Two-wheelers and three-wheelers have hard registration deadlines. Private cars get purchase incentives and scrapping subsidies — but no mandate, no deadline, no regulatory floor.

The policy also explicitly denies any road tax or registration exemption for electric cars priced above Rs 30 lakh. I understand the equity argument — premium EVs don’t need public subsidy. But the environmental argument cuts the other way. An Rs 80 lakh electric SUV replacing a diesel one delivers real, measurable air quality benefit — regardless of the owner’s income bracket. Taxing clean mobility based on price signals sends a strange message for a city that can barely breathe.

Without a mandate, the private car market transition will be incentive-led: slower, patchier, and vulnerable to policy fatigue every time the fiscal environment tightens. For a city with Delhi’s air quality crisis, that’s a real cost.

Charging Infrastructure — Big Mandate, No Measurable Targets

DTL has been handed an enormous brief — planning, deployment, SOP development, a digital portal, single-window clearance, load assessment, and DISCOMs coordination. What the policy conspicuously doesn’t provide is a quantified deployment target with a timeline.

How many charging points by when? What’s the minimum density per square kilometre in dense urban neighbourhoods? What’s the uptime SLA that public chargers must meet? These operational metrics are what separate infrastructure ambitions from infrastructure outcomes. The policy defers all of this to Operational Guidelines and SOP documents to be issued separately — a pattern in Indian policy drafting that has historically been where accountability goes to die.

For an OEM or Charge Point Operator trying to make a capital allocation decision on entering Delhi’s charging market, this ambiguity is a real obstacle. The policy gives you intent. It doesn’t give you the investability parameters you need.

The Financing Gap — The Elephant in the Room

I’ve spent twenty years watching mobility transitions across markets. I’ve never seen one succeed on subsidies and mandates alone without a parallel financing architecture. Delhi’s 2026 policy is silent on EV financing — and that silence is loud.

Take the mass-market two-wheeler buyer: a delivery rider, a small business owner, a first-generation vehicle purchaser. The INR 30,000 subsidy on a vehicle that still costs Rs 1.2–1.5 lakh post-incentive is helpful, but it doesn’t transform the financing reality. That buyer still needs a loan — and the loan ecosystem for EVs in India remains fragmented and under-served.

The policy does nothing to:


  • Mandate or incentivise banks and NBFCs to offer EV-specific lending with reduced collateral requirements
  • Create a loan guarantee mechanism for first-time EV buyers in the informal economy
  • Address battery-as-collateral risk, which keeps lenders cautious about residual value
  • Support lease-to-own models for fleet operators and delivery service providers who need asset-light entry

The broader picture makes this gap harder to ignore. RBI’s revised Priority Sector Lending guidelines, effective April 1, 2025, expanded renewable energy coverage — but EV charging infrastructure is still not listed as an explicit PSL category. A NITI Aayog and RMI study found that banks remain reluctant to lend for EVs because of unresolved residual value uncertainty. And yet the opportunity is enormous: India’s EV financing market is estimated at USD 3.59 billion in 2026, with operating lease formats expected to grow at over 53% CAGR through 2031. The demand for structured EV financing is there. The supply isn’t keeping up. State policy could help close that gap — and has chosen not to.

The Second-Hand EV Market — Unaddressed and Underestimated

Here’s a conversation I’m having more and more with clients: what happens to the first wave of EVs as they age? FAME-I, FAME-II, and earlier Delhi EV policies drove a meaningful volume of purchases. Those vehicles are aging. A secondary market is forming — slowly, informally, and without any supporting infrastructure.

The 2026 policy says nothing about the used EV market. That’s a significant omission.

The core problem is battery State-of-Health (SoH) uncertainty. A used EV buyer today has no standardised way to assess battery degradation, remaining range, or expected life. Without a certification framework — comparable to the pre-owned car programmes that Maruti, Hyundai, and Toyota run for ICE vehicles — the used EV market will stay informal, low-trust, and irrationally price-discounted.

Lenders face the same uncertainty. Batteries currently constitute roughly 30–40% of a new EV’s cost — a share that’s declining as global pack prices fell below $100/kWh for the second consecutive year in 2025, with projections pointing to ~$80/kWh by 2030. Paradoxically, falling new battery costs make used EV valuation harder in the short term, because the replacement cost benchmark keeps moving. Without a battery health certification standard, lenders won’t finance used EVs at scale. Without lender participation, used EV buyers are on their own.

There’s also an unintended consequence buried in the scrapping incentive design. By incentivising owners to scrap older vehicles rather than sell them, the policy may inadvertently reduce second-hand supply and push older units toward landfill faster than necessary. The scrapping provisions are designed with ICE vehicles in mind — but the lifecycle logic doesn’t distinguish between ICE and EV vehicles, and it should.

For 1Lattice, which works with automotive OEMs on market potential assessment, category needs research, and auto finance benchmarking, the used EV market is one of the most compelling emerging opportunity spaces in the entire value chain. It needs structured research investment today to inform the business models of tomorrow.

Implications for the Indian Automotive Industry — Segment by Segment

Two-Wheeler OEMs — Winners, Losers, and a Warning

The market has already begun its reordering — and the Delhi mandate will accelerate it.

TVS Motor Company ended CY2025 as India’s e-2W market leader with nearly 299,000 units and ~23% share, ending Ola Electric’s three-year run at the top. Bajaj’s Chetak platform holds ~25% share. Ather Energy is the momentum story of the year — 200,000 units in CY2025, up 59% YoY, driven by the Rizta family scooter, and over 35,700 units in March 2026 alone, more than doubling the year-ago figure. Hero MotoCorp’s Vida brand posted 196% growth in FY2026, crossing 144,000 units — a demonstration that legacy OEMs with deep distribution networks can execute credibly on EV platforms when they commit.

The Delhi mandate rewards players who’ve already invested in manufacturing scale, service infrastructure, and dealer transition. TVS, Bajaj, Ather, and Hero are all better positioned than they were 18 months ago.

Ola Electric’s trajectory is a warning the entire industry should internalise. Despite being the segment’s pioneer and three-time market leader, its sales fell 51% in CY2025 and continued declining into Q1 2026. Service quality gaps, product reliability concerns, and the rise of better-capitalised legacy OEMs eroded what looked like a durable lead. A regulatory mandate doesn’t rescue a player with a crumbling customer experience. Delhi’s policy will bring more buyers to the showroom — but it won’t make them stay.

For Honda, Suzuki, and Yamaha — the Japanese OEMs who built their India franchises on ICE scooters — the math is stark. All three combined sold fewer than 5,000 electric scooters in FY2026. Less than 24 months now remain before the April 2028 mandate. That’s not enough time to build a credible EV product line, a dealer EV capability, and a service infrastructure from scratch. Their choices: accelerate dramatically, partner with a domestic EV player, or concede the urban two-wheeler market to Indian incumbents.

Three-Wheeler Sector — The Fastest Timeline, and a Central Incentive Gap

Less than 9 months separate the date of notification from the January 2027 ICE ban on new three-wheeler registrations. That’s not a gradual transition. That’s an immediate pivot.

The three-wheeler EV market is more mature than two-wheelers. Mahindra Electric, Piaggio Ape Electric, and several smaller players have built reasonable product and service infrastructure. The INR 50,000 Year 1 incentive for e-autos, stacked with CNG replacement benefits, makes the business case genuinely compelling.

But here’s the critical gap no one is talking about loudly enough: the PM E-DRIVE scheme’s L5 incentive category is already closed. There is no central government subsidy for new L5 e-auto registrations today. Delhi’s INR 50,000 state incentive is the only formal support layer left for the segment that faces the tightest deadline in the entire policy. The buyer profile for this segment — auto-rickshaw drivers, largely in the informal economy, financing through micro-lending or SHG loans — is the most credit-constrained in the EV market. The absence of a federal incentive layer on top of a state incentive, in the segment with the shortest runway, is a gap that demands urgent resolution between GNCTD and MHI.

Commercial Vehicles (N1) — The Policy’s Underappreciated Bet

The INR 1,00,000 purchase incentive for N1 electric trucks in Year 1 — the highest per-unit incentive in the policy — is a signal. Commercial vehicles carry a disproportionate emissions burden relative to their numbers. For last-mile logistics players, e-commerce companies, and FMCG distributors operating urban fleets, this is a meaningful cost bridge.

For Tata Motors and Mahindra — the dominant players in the small commercial vehicle segment — this is a near-term opportunity to lock in fleet relationships that compound over the vehicle’s service life. The fleet aggregator mandate (Section 8.4) effectively prohibits new ICE induction into 4-wheeler LCV/LGV fleets from January 2026, creating urgent replacement demand. That pipeline is real — and the commercial vehicle EV segment needs to be operationally ready to capture it.

Auto Component Manufacturers — A Bifurcated Future

Auto component manufacturers face perhaps the most complex strategic challenge of all. Unlike OEMs who can retool product lines, component makers have often built deep specialisation in ICE-specific sub-systems. The Delhi policy’s two-year horizon on two-wheelers and near-immediate impact on three-wheelers means the transition planning window isn’t approaching. It’s already here.

The opportunity is real too. EV-specific components — battery management systems, power electronics, motor controllers, regenerative braking systems, thermal management modules — are a growing demand pool. Sona BLW, Minda Industries, and Bosch India are already investing in this space. The Delhi policy accelerates the business case for a faster pivot.

Stronger Solutions — What the Policy and Industry Need to Build Together

Build the EV Financing Architecture

The single most important thing missing from this policy is a structured EV financing framework. Without it, subsidies and mandates will do less work than they should. Here’s what the ecosystem actually needs:

A Green Vehicle Loan Guarantee Scheme — where GNCTD or a development finance institution provides partial guarantees to NBFCs for EV loans extended to first-time buyers in the mass market. This de-risks lender portfolios and opens credit to a segment that currently can’t access it on fair terms.

Formalised Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) frameworks. Bounce Infinity has operationalised this model at commercial scale in India: its E1 scooter is available for as little as INR 36,000–45,000 without a battery, with the battery accessed through a monthly swap subscription. More significantly, Hero MotoCorp launched a BaaS model for its Vida VX2 in July 2025, allowing buyers to finance the scooter chassis and battery separately. When India’s largest two-wheeler OEM by volume adopts BaaS, it’s no longer a pilot. It’s a structural shift. Policy needs to catch up — on battery ownership rules, tax treatment, and lender classification.

Dedicated EV MSME lending windows for auto-rickshaw cooperatives, small fleet operators, and delivery service providers. MUDRA isn’t designed for EVs. A dedicated sub-scheme with longer tenures and lower collateral requirements would materially expand the addressable market.

Build a Trusted Used EV Market

Three things need to happen in parallel:

First, a government-mandated battery health certification standard. An SoH assessment at point of resale — covering remaining useful life, estimated range, and degradation profile — would do for EVs what PUC certification does for ICE vehicles. ARAI and BIS have the institutional capability. What’s needed is political will and a deadline.

Second, OEM Certified Pre-Owned (CPO) EV programmes. Tata Motors and MG already run these for ICE vehicles. Extending them to EVs — with a standardised battery warranty floor, say a minimum 70% SoH guarantee — would transform buyer confidence and unlock lender participation in used EV financing.

Third, a digital battery history passport, linked to the battery traceability ecosystem referenced in Section 7.1.4 of the policy. A passport that tracks charge cycles, SoH history, and service records across a vehicle’s lifetime is the foundational trust infrastructure the used EV market needs. Think of it as the Carfax for EVs — and build it now, before the secondary market matures without it.

Turn Infrastructure Intent Into Private Investment

DTL’s mandate is ambitious, but public investment alone won’t close the charging infrastructure gap at the pace the mandate demands. What Delhi needs alongside the DTL framework is a structured private investment model for Charge Point Operators:

•    Transparent bidding for public land sites — bus depots, metro station lots, municipal parking — with 10–15-year concession agreements that justify private capital deployment

•    Standardised uptime and reliability SLAs, with actual penalty and incentive structures, so deployed infrastructure stays trustworthy

•  Interoperability mandates requiring open protocols (OCPP) and multiple payment methods, preventing the ecosystem fragmentation that has already hurt cities that moved faster without standards

CPO concession models offer stable, infrastructure-like cash flow profiles — the kind institutional investors understand and can price. The risk today is policy uncertainty and demand aggregation ambiguity. The 2026 policy reduces the policy uncertainty. The investment community needs to see Delhi execute on its institutional promises to close the demand aggregation gap. That means measurable targets, not deferred SOPs.

The Bigger Picture — Delhi as India’s EV Bellwether

Why does Delhi’s policy matter beyond Delhi’s borders? Two reasons.

First, Delhi’s vehicle registration data and air quality outcomes are among the most watched urban metrics in India’s environment governance landscape. A demonstrable improvement in air quality — documented credibly, as this policy now mandates — creates political capital for similar frameworks in other states. Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad are watching. What Delhi proves — or fails to prove — shapes what they do next.

Second, Delhi is a price-setting market for the Indian EV industry. The competitive dynamics that play out here — which OEMs gain share, which dealer networks adapt fastest, what charging infrastructure economics look like — will shape product strategies, dealer network investments, and financing product design that cascade to every major metro in the country.

What I’ll be watching as closely as the policy itself is the quality of execution. India has a long and occasionally frustrating track record of well-designed policies struggling on implementation: delayed operational guidelines, under-resourced nodal agencies, DBT systems that don’t disburse, and the perennial challenge of inter-departmental coordination. The institutional infrastructure this policy creates — an EV Cell under the Joint Commissioner, a High-Powered Committee under the Chief Secretary, a Delhi EV Apex Committee under the Transport Minister — is serious and genuine. But institutions are defined by their actions, not their formation orders. Whether these bodies move with speed and coherence will determine whether 2026 becomes a turning point or another well-intentioned false dawn.

Closing Perspective

The Delhi EV Policy 2026–2030 is the most coherent and regulation-backed EV framework this city has produced. The incentive architecture is thoughtful. The mandates are consequential. The institutional design is more resolved than anything that came before. But it is a framework, not a finished system.

The gaps — in EV financing, used EV market architecture, charging infrastructure specificity, and the absence of a private car mandate — aren’t minor. They represent the distance between a policy that accelerates the transition and one that merely accompanies it.

For everyone in this industry — OEMs, component manufacturers, investors, financiers, fleet operators — the signal from Delhi is unambiguous: the direction is irreversible, the timeline is compressing, and the cost of waiting is rising. The winners of India’s EV transition won’t be those who waited for perfect policy. They’ll be the ones who built for the policy’s intent while filling in the gaps that policy alone can’t address.

At 1Lattice, our work across the automotive value chain — from OEM strategy and dealer network diagnostics to auto finance benchmarking and market potential assessment — puts us at exactly this intersection. The questions our clients are asking today are the questions this policy makes urgent: How do I size the EV opportunity in my segment? How do I redesign my dealer network for an EV-dominant future? How do I build a used EV business model that actually works financially?

Delhi has given the industry a map. Now comes the harder work of building the roads.

 

The author is Suyyog Kellusskar, Senior Director – Industrial Goods & Services at 1Lattice, a leading market intelligence and research advisory firm with deep expertise across the automotive value chain. 1Lattice works with OEMs, fleet operators, component manufacturers, and mobility solution providers to deliver actionable, data-backed insights that drive business performance. Learn more at www.1lattice.com.

© 2026 | Views expressed are the author’s own professional assessments and do not constitute legal or investment advice.

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