Delhi EV Policy & Discom-Tendered Public Charging
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The land was tendered on the lowest service charge to drivers rather than the highest revenue to the state, and charging landed at roughly 2 rupees a unit. The 25 percent target for 2024 was still missed.
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Delhi's 2020 EV policy paired purchase and scrapping subsidies with an unusual charging tender: the government pooled about 100 public land parcels from the metro, the bus corporation and other agencies and awarded them on the lowest service charge to drivers rather than the highest revenue to the state, producing public charging at roughly 2 rupees a unit across some 900 points from late 2022. The policy's own target was 25 percent of new vehicle registrations electric by 2024; penetration was about 12 percent when the tender was written and 12.6 percent of new sales in FY2026. The policy lapsed in August 2023 and was extended repeatedly, with about 140 crore rupees of promised subsidies unpaid until a High Court order in September 2025. A successor policy took effect on 1 July 2026.
📊 Impact
The tender did what it was designed to do: bidding on the service charge drove quotes negative and left public charging at about 2 rupees a unit across 900 points at 100 sites. The build-out has not kept pace with the policy's own arithmetic — 8,849 public charging points and 893 battery-swapping stations by the end of 2025, against an assessed requirement of 36,150 points and 1,500 stations — and neither has demand: EVs were about 12 percent of Delhi's vehicle market by the case study's account in January 2023 and 12.6 percent of new vehicle sales in FY2026, against a 25 percent target for 2024.
🎓 Lesson
The clever half of this policy is a procurement design, and it delivered exactly what it was designed to deliver. Making the service charge to the driver the bidding criterion instead of the revenue to the state drove bids negative and put public charging at about 2 rupees a unit, and the state removed the two costs that usually kill a charging business by aggregating the land itself and paying for the upstream electrical connection. None of that moved the number the policy was written for. Penetration sat at roughly 12 percent when the tender was let and 12.6 percent in FY2026; the network stood at 8,849 public points against an assessed requirement of 36,150; and the subsidy meant to pull buyers across went unpaid for two years — because, on the government's own account, a chief minister's arrest meant the cabinet did not meet to extend the policy in time, and a court had to say that procedural hurdles are not a pretext for withholding money already promised.
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Two clocks, kept apart: when this entry’s sources were published, and what has happened to its record in the atlas. Documented span: 2020–2026. 5 of 6 sources carry a publication date, from 25 January 2023 to 2 July 2026.
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- OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation · international organisationOECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation — Delhi's model of EV charging infrastructure
- The Tribune · pressThe Tribune — Govt extends EV policy till March 2026 · updated 23 July 2025
- Outlook Business · pressOutlook Business — Delhi to clear 140 crore rupees pending EV subsidy dues after High Court rap
- ThePrint · pressThePrint — Delhi govt to add 7,000 EV charging points, 100 swapping stations this year
- pv magazine India · presspv magazine India — Can Delhi's new EV policy deliver 95% EV registrations by 2027?
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the government pooled about 100 public land parcels from the metro, the bus corporation and other agencies and awarded them on the lowest service charge to drivers rather than the highest revenue to the state, producing public charging at roughly 2 rupees a unit across some 900 points from late 2022
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The policy's own target was 25 percent of new vehicle registrations electric by 2024; penetration was about 12 percent when the tender was written and 12.6 percent of new sales in FY2026
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The policy lapsed in August 2023 and was extended repeatedly
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with about 140 crore rupees of promised subsidies unpaid until a High Court order in September 2025
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A successor policy took effect on 1 July 2026
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bidding on the service charge drove quotes negative and left public charging at about 2 rupees a unit across 900 points at 100 sites
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8,849 public charging points and 893 battery-swapping stations by the end of 2025, against an assessed requirement of 36,150 points and 1,500 stations
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EVs were about 12 percent of Delhi's vehicle market by the case study's account in January 2023 and 12.6 percent of new vehicle sales in FY2026, against a 25 percent target for 2024
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the state removed the two costs that usually kill a charging business by aggregating the land itself and paying for the upstream electrical connection
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the subsidy meant to pull buyers across went unpaid for two years — because, on the government's own account, a chief minister's arrest meant the cabinet did not meet to extend the policy in time, and a court had to say that procedural hurdles are not a pretext for withholding money already promised
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Governance facts carried by the record
- Operator
- Transport Department / State EV Cell, Government of NCT of Delhi, with Delhi Transco Limited and the distribution companies BRPL, BYPL and Tata Power-DDL
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- city-government, utility
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- mixed
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Transport Department, Government of NCT of Delhi — Delhi EV Policy
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- Name not classified · transport.delhi.gov.in
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2026-07-26
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- 2026-08-27
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The policy's own page. Nothing in this entry rests on it alone: the 25 per cent target for 2024 is quoted instead from the OECD case study cited beside it. No publication date is recorded for the page.
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OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation — Delhi's model of EV charging infrastructure
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- Name not classified · oecd-opsi.org
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- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2023-01-25
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- 2026-07-26
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Case study (25 Jan 2023) of the Delhi Transco tender: land aggregation from DMRC and DTC, lease linked to utilisation, service charge as the bidding criterion, ~900 points at 100 locations, 2 rupees per unit. The 'cheapest in the world' framing is the submitting body's own.
ThePrint — Delhi govt to add 7,000 EV charging points, 100 swapping stations this year
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- Name not classified · theprint.in
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2026-01-19
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19 Jan 2026, Delhi government figures: 8,849 charging points and 893 battery-swapping stations against a requirement of 36,150 points.
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pv magazine India — Can Delhi's new EV policy deliver 95% EV registrations by 2027?
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- Name not classified · pv-magazine-india.com
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2026-07-02
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- 2026-07-26
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2 Jul 2026: EV penetration 12.6% of new sales in FY2026; successor policy runs 1 Jul 2026 to 31 Mar 2030.
The Tribune — Govt extends EV policy till March 2026
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- Name not classified · tribuneindia.com
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2025-07-23
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- 2025-07-23
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22 Jul 2025 cabinet decision; confirms the policy lapsed in August 2023 and has been extended several times pending a replacement.
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Outlook Business — Delhi to clear 140 crore rupees pending EV subsidy dues after High Court rap
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- Name not classified · outlookbusiness.com
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2025-09-16
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- 2026-07-26
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Delhi High Court order of 3 Sep 2025 on a two-year subsidy backlog; about 140 crore rupees pending, 177 crore disbursed through 2023.
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| NOX-Block Lamppost EV ChargingDortmund, 🇩🇪 | 2019 | Live | Ongoing | Official | Utility or public operator, City government | not public | The utility built it into existing streetlights on a federal grant, and then published utilisation — calling five and a half per cent a very good inner-city value. |
| Sharing Cities — Greenwich Smart DistrictLondon, 🇬🇧 | 2016 | Completed | Succeeded | Official | City government | not public | Same idea, EU demonstrator money, and the lamppost approach was copied widely because it avoids new street furniture entirely. |
| Oslo's Municipal On-Street EV Charging NetworkOslo, 🇳🇴 | 2007 | Live | Scaled back | Official | City government, Private company | not public | The city's own agency has run its street network since 2007, and keeps missing its own annual targets — a modest municipal effort folded into a national tax-policy success story. |
| Delhi EV Policy & Discom-Tendered Public ChargingNew Delhi, 🇮🇳 | 2020 | Completed | Scaled back | Official | City government, Utility or public operator | not public | Tendered on the lowest price to the driver rather than the highest revenue to the state, which produced cheap public charging and nowhere near enough of it. |
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Delhi EV Policy & Discom-Tendered Public Charging” — New Delhi, India. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/delhi-ev-policy-charging/ (last verified 2026-07-26). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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