Cost comparison of battery swapping, point charging, and ICE two-wheelers in India

Batch 1IndiaICCT
Written By WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

By Nibedita Dash and Anup Bandivadekar

Battery swapping is an innovative electric vehicle refueling model that can be used by vehicles with a detachable battery. This paper evaluates if electric two-wheelers in India with the battery-swapping option have achieved cost parity relative to electric two-wheelers with the point charging option and with conventional gasoline two-wheelers. Results show that for all three use cases considered, the electric two-wheelers with point-charging and battery-swapping options are considerably cheaper than the gasoline two-wheeler. 

 
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