Powering Equity
India is rapidly advancing its electric vehicle (EV) transition. Anchored in climate ambition, industrial policy, and energy security, a series of central and state level schemes & policies are reshaping how India moves, manufactures, and invests.
What’s less visible, however, is who this transition is for? And who risks being left behind. Because who gets to ride is not a secondary concern. It is the foundation of a just future facing mobility ecosystem.
India’s EV transition is a once in a generation opportunity to build infrastructure, industries, and institutions that are not only green, but just. And that requires public policy to shift from gender neutral to gender responsive, across design, budgets, capital flow, workforce development, institutional capacities, and governance.
This 18 part Lever Edition, Launching August 2025 will over the next 12 months not only identify where India’s EV policy architecture falls short on gender responsiveness, but also map systemic exclusion, analyse financing and implementation gaps and recommend clear policy shifts that enable a just inclusive transition
This Lever Edition is part of the ZURI Policy Accelerator initiative to shape a GEDSCI integrated mobility sector in India
