Feasibility Study for Introducing Electric Taxis Fleet

A leading multi-national automobile company was developing new electric vehicles for Indian Commercial Market, and was exploring the possibility to launch Nissan Leaf in India. The company wanted to studying “Performance of Taxi Vehicles in India” to understand the feasibility of introducing “Electric Vehicles and related Infrastructure” for Taxi operations.

Project Overview

The study on “Performance of Taxi Vehicles in India” was conducted for leading automobile players to understand the feasibility of introducing “Electric Vehicles and related Infrastructure” for Taxi operations with focus on 8 key cities in India.

Key Role

• City-wise Taxi Population (Understanding increasing trend in business)- No. of registered taxi in each city from 2012, 2013 and 2014
• Preferred time or shift that taxi owner /Driver like to operate ion daily basis
• Average No. of kms run by taxi operator per day i.e Mileage per day
• Trend of Taxi operator in each cities year on year basis
• Preferred vehicles segment by taxi operator – Trend for different segments
• Cost of ownership of Electric vehicles, maintenance cost fuel cost and others cost related to electric Vehicles
• Taxi driver behaviour in each major cities
• Existing market of electric vehicles in commercial segments and available technologies