Hybrids emit less carbon than battery-powered electric cars: R C Bhargava | Interviews

Against the backdrop of the ministry of heavy industries (MHI) setting up a task force to design a road map for the country’s electric vehicles and amid states such as Uttar Pradesh exempting registration fee for hybrid cars, R C Bhargava, chairman of Maruti Suzuki, in a telephonic interview with Surajeet Das Gupta, talks on the battle between electric and other alternative technologies to reduce carbon emissions. Edited excerpts:

Do you think it is time for the industry and the government to together relook at the EV policy?

 

Who is the industry? It is made of