With the entire world now being encouraged to switch to Electric Vehicles (EV’s), it was when rather than if Pakistan would also join the race. Especially with Imran Khan’s drive to make Pakistan clean and green again, the wheels have finally started turning in the right direction for the Pakistani Automotive Industry.
During November 2019, Pakistan approved the rather optimistic National Electric Vehicles Policy (NEVP), with the goal of observing a 30% conversion of the entire automotive industry to electric power by 2030, and an ambitious 90% by 2040. Furthermore, the policy includes a particular set of very generous incentives that shall be offered to the motorists who switch to EVs.
In a Facebook post today, Javed Afridi, a noteworthy figure in the Pakistani business community, teased some of the enticing incentives that the public would get if they switch to green power. Afridi posted the following:
