India, March 16 -- The third private car purchased in every Delhi household must be an electric vehicle, no fossil fuel-run three-wheelers will be registered from August this year and no non-electric two-wheeler will be allowed to register from August 2026, the state government is likely to stipulate as part of its ambitious Electric Vehicles Policy 2.0, according to officials aware of the matter.

Delhi transport minister Pankaj Kumar Singh has approved the policy in principle and it will now be presented to the cabinet, one of the officials said.

"The new policy has some bold targets aimed at ensuring EV transition in every vehicle segment. In some categories, we hope that we will be able to achieve 100% new vehicles being registered a...