At the last annual convention of the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) in September 2019, Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari dismissed the idea of a timeline for auto makers to switch to electric mobility, saying ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles would co-exist, without being phased out. This was a departure from his bold announcement in 2017 that India’s auto industry would go all electric by 2030, which sent waves