Over the years, India is facing very serious environmental problems which are responsible for much malevolence in the society. The exponential growing market of automobiles and vehicles are becoming a major concern for the government to protect the environment from its harmful emissions. Thus, electrical vehicles have an answer of these problems up to the larger extent with a strong promising market potential. Therefore, it has become imperative to undertake some empirical study to investigate the factors affecting Indian Consumers’ willingness to purchase electric vehicles over traditional fuel base vehicles and the scope and opportunities lie ahead in the Indian Market.

A strong paradigm shift in the automobile industry is taking place at a rapid pace. Consumers of cars and other vehicles are becoming more and more educated, conscious, and susceptible towards the depleting petroleum resources and deteriorating environment due to excessive usages of petroleum base vehicles.

The Electrical Vehicles are the next generation future vehicles and the answer of the issues. Since electrical vehicles are more efficient and less responsible for greenhouse gases and other harmful emissions hence future belongs to these cars not only in India but overseas as well. This research paper will encapsulate predominantly some salient features of consumers’ perceptions such as driving range of electric vehicles, charging of the battery infrastructure, cost of the electric vehicles, government polices to promote the market and incentives to the customers, perception of the society etc.