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Nepal has recently made significant progress in sustainable transportation, particularly electric mobility. As it strives to reduce carbon emissions and improve air quality, electric vehicles are becoming an increasingly important part of its climate action plan. This has also generated a lot of interest in the energy and transportation sectors. But despite the government's targets of 25% electric vehicle usage by 2025 and 90% by 2030, the lack of a stable policy environment and issues related to financing and infrastructure poses a challenge.
In this episode, PEI’s Shreeya Rana sits with Anantaa Pandey to discuss the progress, the challenges, and the solutions in Nepal's electric mobility journey. They unpack challenges in financing, and infrastructure to support electric mobility, while also talking about the policies, which aren’t always aligned. Anantaa is the Senior Program Officer at the Global Green Growth Institute’s Nepal office. She has advised the Nepalese government on policy and technical issues concerning electric mobility, and she has conducted feasibility studies on the deployment of EVs in Nepal. She is currently leading the Sustainable Electric Transport Project.
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