Transport minister Pratap Sarnaik said the govt was also considering making it tollfree for EV cars and buses on all other highways across Maharashtra soon.
- Updated On Apr 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM IST
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The state will provide subsidies for EVs to replace highly polluting heavy diesel vehicles, which pollute 67 times more than cars.”“>
State govt, unveiling its Electric Vehicle Policy, 2025, announced 100% toll exemption for 4-wheeler passenger vehicles and EV buses on Mumbai-Pune Expressway, Samruddhi Highway and Atal Setu for 5 years. The cabinet cleared the policy Tuesday. The govt is also considering making it toll-free for EV cars and buses on all highways across the state, transport minister Pratap Sarnaik said. Besides strengthening charging infrastructure, it is planning to make it mandatory for all new CHS and complexes to provide infrastructure for charging and encourage EV adoption, reports Somit Sen.
EVs can roll on E-way, Atal Setu, Samruddhi toll-free
The state govt has announced 100% toll exemption for electric four-wheeler passenger vehicles and EV buses on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, Samruddhi Highway, and Atal Setu for five years. This was part of the new Electric Vehicle policy, 2025, unveiled by the govt and cleared by the cabinet headed by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday.
Transport minister Pratap Sarnaik said the govt was also considering making it tollfree for EV cars and buses on all other highways across Maharashtra soon.
The old EV policy, which was unveiled by former environment minister Aaditya Thackeray in July 2021 has not been completely ignored. Sources said that the incentives for two, three and four wheelers continue as per that policy, except that the category of vehicles has now been widened in the new policy.
Additional chief secretary (transport) Sanjay Sethi told TOI, “The new policy has included trucks, other heavy vehicles, agricultural tractors and harvesters, construction vehicles, ambulances, and solid waste transport vehicles. We are also encouraging conversion of all civic corporation (for example, BMC) vehicles to electric and this includes dumper trucks. The state will provide subsidies for EVs to replace highly polluting heavy diesel vehicles, which pollute 67 times more than cars.”
Sethi further said that an important aspect of the new EV policy was strengthening the charging infrastructure. “We will have several fast-charging facilities on the Expressway, Samruddhi and on other highways. We are signing MoUs with petrol pumps in the city and on highways to ensure that there are four to five charging points at all pumps and also at ST stands and depots, which will remove range anxiety of EV riders,” he said. “By 2030, we aim to reduce 325 tons of PM 2.5 emissions and 1 million tons of Greenhouse Gas emissions from the transport sector in Maharashtra.”
Development control (DC) rules will be changed to make it mandatory for all new housing societies/complexes to provide good infrastructure for EV charging and encourage adoption of EVs within the society, he said. The old housing societies will also get incentives from power utilities to set up charging infrastructure. EV charging infra will be mandatory in commercial spaces and govt offices.
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