Goods and Services Tax on batteries and charging infrastructure should be brought down from 18 percent to 5 percent to make replacements "more affordable" in line with "supportive" GST on electric vehicles, said Sulajja Firodia Motwani, Chair of FICCI's Electric Vehicle Committee and founder and CEO of Kinetic Green Energy and Power Solutions.
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