New Delhi, June 6 -- India must resist the temptation of intermediary technologies like hybrid cars and instead leapfrog directly into adopting electric vehicles (EVs), much like it did during the smartphone revolution, said India's G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant on World Environment Day on Thursday. "Opting for hybrids is like returning to typewriters in an era of artificial intelligence and smartphones," said Kant, the former CEO of NITI Aayog. He was speaking at the release of a report by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) and IIT Roorkee that assesses life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of internal combustion engine vehicles, hybrid EVs, and battery EVs. While transport contributes about 14% to Delhi's pollution load, Kant said the city's multi-source pollution crisis. From stubble burning and industrial emissions to power generation and the domestic use of traditional methods of cooking and heating such as biomass or dungcake burning during winter, Delhi faces a compound challenge. "From October to December, Delhi becomes the most polluted capital city in the world. Over 80% of the population breathes air worse than India's national ambient air quality standards. It cuts life expectancy by over six years," he said. He advocated for a winter-specific government scheme for LPG coverage to reduce pollution from biomass burning. Kant said around 30% of air pollution in Delhi is caused by power plants and industries in NCR. He said that of 12 power plants , only seven out of 36 units have flue gas torrefaction and dry sorbent injection systems installed....