The National Mission on Transformative Mobility and Battery Storage is a government scheme or initiative approved by the Union Cabinet in March 2019 to drive clean, connected, shared, sustainable, and holistic mobility initiatives in India. The mission was created to address the problems of high oil import dependence, poor air quality in cities, and the need to enhance the uptake of renewable energy and storage solutions. It aims to position India as a global leader in electric mobility by leveraging its market size and scale.
The mission operates through an Inter-Ministerial Steering Committee, which is chaired by the CEO of NITI Aayog. Its key mechanism is to recommend and drive strategies for transformative mobility and the Phased Manufacturing Programme (PMP) for Electric Vehicles (EVs), EV components, and batteries. The PMP, initially valid for five years until 2024, is designed to localize production across the entire EV value chain and support the setting up of large-scale, export-competitive integrated batteries and cell-manufacturing Giga plants in India. The mission is tasked with finalizing the details of the PMP, including the value addition achieved with each phase of localization, with a clear Make in India strategy.
This mission is closely connected to other major government initiatives, such as the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles in India (FAME) Scheme, specifically FAME-II, which was launched on March 8, 2019, with a financial outlay of ₹10,000 crores. The mission also connects to the National Programme on Advanced Chemistry Cell (ACC) Battery Storage, launched on June 9, 2021, which allocated ₹18,100 crores to develop large-scale ACC manufacturing facilities. A revised version of FAME-II was introduced on June 11, 2021, extending the scheme until 2024 and increasing incentives for electric two-wheelers.