The reference log
Maintained by the EVz Editorial Team · updated 27 July 2026 · how we verify
Every dated change in India's EV incentives, state and central, in one maintained log: what changed, when, and whether it made EVs cheaper or costlier to buy. Written for buyers and for the journalists who currently have nowhere authoritative to link when a Karnataka-style story breaks. Free to cite with attribution; the per-state detail behind each entry lives on the EV subsidies pages with official sources.
Outer bounds, not guarantees: capped schemes can exhaust before their dates, and terms can be extended or ended by notification.
The central Rs 2,500/kWh incentive (capped at Rs 5,000) for electric two-wheelers runs to 31 July 2026 under the scheme's current notification. Three-wheeler and larger-vehicle components run to 31 March 2028. Funds are capped and first-come, so the incentive can exhaust before the date.
Assam's 100% road-tax exemption rides on a five-year policy term that ends around September 2026. Whether it is renewed decides the on-road price of every EV registered in the state after that.
Odisha extended its 100% road-tax and registration waiver to 30 September 2026. No successor policy has been notified yet.
Telangana's 100% road-tax exemption applies to EVs registered up to 31 December 2026. Buyers registering later than that date have no notified waiver to rely on yet.
Tamil Nadu extended its 100% road-tax and registration exemption for all EV classes to 31 December 2027.
Karnataka's Motor Vehicles Taxation (Amendment) Act, 2026 (Act 29 of 2026, gazetted 10 April 2026) charges electric cars registering fresh a one-time lifetime tax in price slabs on vehicle cost: 5% up to Rs 10 lakh, 8% from Rs 10-25 lakh, 10% above Rs 25 lakh (an earlier 20% proposal was rolled back to these slabs). Electric two-wheelers remain exempt. This ends the full waiver era for e-cars in the state, is the sharpest recent example of a state moving AGAINST the incentive tide, and changes Bengaluru on-road prices by tens of thousands to lakhs.
Gujarat's order taxing EVs at a concessional 1% expired on 31 March 2026 with no confirmed successor notified. Until a new order lands, EV buyers in Gujarat cannot count on the concession.
Meghalaya's full road-tax exemption for EVs expired on 31 March 2026; renewal is unconfirmed.
Punjab's 100% road-tax waiver lapsed when the state EV policy's three-year term ended around February 2026. No renewal has been notified.
Kerala's 2026-27 budget put EVs on a concessional 3% road tax rather than a full exemption - cheaper than petrol-vehicle rates, but no longer zero.
UP's blanket three-year road-tax waiver ended on 13 October 2025. Since then only EVs manufactured in Uttar Pradesh get the tax rebate (notified to 13 October 2027), a flip that quietly raised on-road prices for most models sold in the state.
Under GST 2.0 (effective September 2025) EVs remain taxed at 5% while comparable petrol and diesel vehicles attract up to 40%. For electric cars, which get almost no cash subsidy, this structural gap is the single biggest price advantage.
From April 2025 the e-2W incentive dropped to Rs 2,500/kWh capped at Rs 5,000 per vehicle, from the earlier Rs 5,000/kWh capped at Rs 10,000 - effectively raising e-scooter prices by up to Rs 5,000 overnight.
The PM E-DRIVE scheme (Rs 10,900 crore outlay) replaced FAME-II, which had ended in March 2024. It covers electric two- and three-wheelers plus buses, trucks and ambulances - private electric cars get nothing from it.
The income-tax deduction on EV-loan interest applied only to loans sanctioned up to 31 March 2023. It remains widely - and wrongly - advertised as a live benefit for new buyers.
Cite freely with attribution: EV Policy Watch, EVz (evz.guru), linked to this page. Each entry's jurisdiction page carries the official source, the current computed effect on on-road prices, and a per-model calculator. The underlying incentives dataset follows the same honesty rule as everything on EVz: lapsed or exhausted schemes compute as zero, and we do not predict beyond notified dates. Corrections land on the public corrections log.
Karnataka: karnataka starts levying a lifetime road tax on electric cars (10 April 2026). The full dated log below covers every state and central change EVz tracks, each linked to its official or notified source.
Central: 31 July 2026; Assam: ~September 2026; Odisha: 30 September 2026; Telangana: 31 December 2026; Tamil Nadu: 31 December 2027. Capped schemes can exhaust before their notified dates, so treat these as outer bounds.
Yes - it exists for exactly that. Cite EVz with a link to this page; every entry names its jurisdiction, date and effect, and the underlying per-state data carries official sources. Journalists can also pull the state-by-state detail from the EV subsidies pages.