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MOBILITY

Shared Electric Mobility

The way forward for a

sustainable transport ecosystem

Nitish Arora, Manager, Electric

Vehicle & Clean Technology
Track and Aishwarya
Raman, Head of Research
and Associate Director, Ola

Mobility Institute explain
how shifting consumers’
focus from ownership to
shared access of products and

services can usher in a change

t took close to 60 years for the Once it reaches the peak, its role in a demand-responsive fleet of e-cabs,
number of registered vehicles in decongesting cities would become and e-rickshaws, the project has
India to grow from 0.3 million in more evident, making mobility achieved staggering numbers in one
1951 to 105 million in 2008. But affordable, accessible, safer and and a half years:
Iit took only six years from 2009 greener. Given the low per capita car • Served over 3,50,000 customers
to 2015 to add another 105 million ownership of 22 per 1000 citizens
vehicles on the road. This alarming compared to 980 in the US and 850 Completed over 75 lakh clean km
growth has imposed huge socio- in the UK, it’s an opportune time • Saved approximately 5.7 lakh
economic costs on the people. Private for India to embrace sustainable liters of fossil fuel
automobiles are especially responsible mobility solutions for a green and • Cut CO2 emission by over 1,230
for contributing to 20 percent prosperous future. Since inception in tons
passenger transport emissions while 2015, shared rides have saved over 37 The pilot has unequivocally
supporting only four percent of total million liters of fuel and reduced CO2 demonstrated that widespread
passenger transit activity in Indian emissions by over 63 million kgs on a adoption of Electric Vehicles will rely
cities. With 14 of the world’s 20 most single mobility platform like Ola. on shared mobility. It offers immense
polluted cities being in India, there is The Ola Nagpur Project - India’s learning in operationalizing e-mobility
a pressing need to adopt, augment, first multimodal e-mobility project in a country with extreme climatic
and harness a fresh perspective. The breakthrough in decarbonizing conditions. All it needs is the right
The silver lining? The wave of transport, though, comes in the form business models and enabling policy-
shared mobility through organized of India’s first multimodal electric regulatory environment to foster
services has just begun in India. mobility project in Nagpur. Involving sustainable mobility solutions at scale.

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