Although there has been a significant increase in the number of four-wheelers used for personal purposes, the import of two-wheelers and large public electric vehicles has not increased significantly. Due to high cost and lack of infrastructure, public electric vehicles have not increased. Among the public vehicles, the number of big buses is also less.

According to the data of the customs department, 3 thousand 106 electric buses, micro buses and minibuses worth 9 billion 42 crore 11 lakh rupees were imported in the last financial year. According to the department, there are 16 buses among them. 

In the financial year 2080/81, 884 electric vehicles worth 2 billion 91 crore 41 lakh rupees were imported. In which there were 11 buses and the rest were only mini buses and micro buses. In the financial year 2079/80, 281 electric vehicles worth 1 billion 139 million 89 thousand rupees were imported. Among them, 37 buses, 3 mini buses and 241 micro buses have been imported. In the financial year 2078/79, 84 micro buses were imported worth 20332 million rupees. 

Even though the figure of bus import is increasing, there are only 50 electric buses operating on the roads. Out of which 40 shared transport and 10 private companies are operating public electric buses. 

"The Chinese government is subsidizing 100 electric vehicles to Nepal, and they will be operated by shared transportation," he said.

"Private vehicles run only for 2/3 hours a day, now the pollution is caused by large diesel and petrol vehicles," said Tuladhar, "If large vehicles can be electrified, carbon emissions will decrease." As the number of private vehicles is increasing, traffic jams are increasing, to reduce it, large vehicles should be changed to electric ones.' 

He says that if the government makes public transport more agile and attracts consumers, two-wheelers and private vehicles will decrease and traffic jams will also decrease. The government's policy is that public transport should be electrified. But Tuladhar says that no investment has been made towards implementation. He argues that easy policy should be adopted in loan investment to import large electric buses through the government's budget and monetary policy of Rashtra Bank. 

"The price of a big electric bus is more than one crore rupees, while the price of a diesel bus is not even half of that," Tuladhar said, "The electric bus has not been available because of the high initial cost. For this, loan investment should be facilitated, the government should invest in public transport.' 

Maheshwar Dhakal, joint secretary of the Ministry of Forests and Environment and Head of the Climate Change Management Division, said that if the consumption of electric vehicles increases, domestically produced electricity will be consumed, money will not be spent on diesel-petrol imports, and there will be less impact on the environment due to air pollution. He said that although electric vehicles for personal purposes with limited consumers have increased in popularity, public vehicles have not increased. "It is public transport that causes more pollution and benefits more passengers, now emphasis should be placed on importing public electric vehicles," he said.