Electric Bikes Over Cars? CEO’s Blunt Message on India’s Pollution Problem
Ador Digatron CEO urges India to ditch car-centric mindset and go electric with 2- and 3-wheelers.
At the NDTV World Summit 2025 held in New Delhi, Ravin Mirchandani, Chairman and CEO of Ador Digatron, delivered a compelling case for rethinking India’s approach to clean mobility, dismissing the focus on personal cars as a “fallacy.” He urged prioritizing the electrification of two- and three-wheelers, buses, and trucks, which dominate India’s roads, to combat air pollution and reduce reliance on imported hydrocarbons.
Mirchandani highlighted the scale of India’s vehicular landscape, noting that of the country’s 360 million vehicles, 82 percent are two- and three-wheelers, 12 percent are trucks and buses, and only 6-8 percent are cars. “The way to clean up India’s air and reduce dependence on hydrocarbons is to focus on the two- and three-wheelers, and then the trucks and buses,” he stated, emphasizing the need for targeted interventions in high-impact segments to deliver cleaner air for future generations.
A significant milestone, Mirchandani revealed, is 2025 marking the first year electric three-wheelers have outsold their internal combustion engine counterparts, with electric two-wheeler adoption skyrocketing. “In 2020, you’d see one green number plate a month. Now it’s one a minute,” he remarked, illustrating the rapid transition. He also praised the government’s ambitious push for public transport electrification, citing an upcoming tender for 15,000 electric buses in a single year, a stark contrast to Australia’s modest 150-bus plan.
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Looking ahead, Mirchandani outlined the next phase: electrifying trucks, starting with intra-city routes and expanding to long-haul intercity travel. “Out of 360 million vehicles, let’s focus on where the real big bang is going to be: two-wheelers, three-wheelers, buses, and trucks. That’s where India’s clean mobility story will be written,” he concluded, underscoring that strategic electrification in these segments will drive transformative progress toward cleaner air and energy independence by October 20, 2025.
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