The inaugural meeting of the Steering Committee on Electric Vehicles, presided over by Minister of Industries and Production Rana Tanveer Hussain, took place on Tuesday and resulted in a decision.
The strategy will support local production, early adoption of EVs and NEVs, energy efficiency, and the automotive industry’s shift to clean technology, according to the meeting notes.
The steering committee will also supervise the federal government’s transition from conventional to electric vehicles (EVs), and in its upcoming meeting, it will deliberate on strategies to create a funding framework that will encourage the use of EVs and NEVs by providing grants from the federal budget.
Senior officials from pertinent ministries and departments, as well as Secretary of Industries and Production Saif Anjum and Minister for Energy Sardar Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari, attended the meeting.
