• Rakesh Patralekh

Electric vehicles (EV) have been around for a while and have been a tempting, but difficult choice for prospective customers ever since the first one hit the market. Tantalising, because fuel prices have been on a steady upward trajectory since 2016; but difficult, since despite both Union and state government subsidies, the initial cost of electric vehicles have remained stubbornly, and significantly, higher than those of its fossil-fuel driven peers. Last few years have not been a normal one as far as petrol and diesel prices uptrand. Because fuel prices breaching the psychological Rs 100 per litre barrier petrol and diesel prices have risen by 26 per cent and 20 per cent. So with this sharp increase in fossil fuel prices electric vehicles has become a more attractive option for prospective automobile customers. But as with any cost comparison for automobiles, the key factor that determines cost efficiency is the amount of use you plan to get out of the vehicle.

Conversion of Existing End of life Fossil Fuel based 4 Wheelers to EVs in Delhi and India

"Comparison between Fossil Fuel Vs Electric Cars Vs Retrofitted EV-TCO ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no.d227-d238, December-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2112329.pdf

"Comparison between Fossil Fuel Vs Electric Cars Vs Retrofitted EV-TCO ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no. ppd227-d238, December-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2112329.pdf