Pakistan National Electric Vehicle (NEV) Policy 2025-2030

Mechanism

The NEV Policy 2025-2030 is a horizontal EV industrial-policy framework launched by Pakistan's Ministry of Industries and Production (MoIP) via the Engineering Development Board (EDB), with the launch press release issued by the Press Information Department on 19 June 2025. A steering committee chaired by the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Industries and Production (Haroon Akhtar Khan) was convened in September 2024 and drew on more than 60 experts and institutions before finalisation; the policy document was finalised on 13 August 2025.

The core instruments are:

• PKR 9 billion FY2025-26 subsidy envelope disbursed through a

digital platform to subsidise 116,053 electric two-wheelers and 3,171 electric three-wheelers, with 25% of the envelope ring-fenced for women applicants. This is the largest single-year direct EV consumer subsidy in Pakistan's history.

• 30% NEV sales target by 2030 across all new-vehicle segments.
• 40 motorway EV charging stations at ~105 km average spacing,

removing the principal range-anxiety barrier on intercity corridors.

• Auditor General performance audits every six months — an unusually

strong accountability mechanism for Pakistan industrial policy.

The policy is administered by MoIP/EDB and supervised by the NEV steering committee. The Auditor General of Pakistan retains a six-month performance-audit cadence.

Downstream implications

• First Pakistan EV / auto-industrial filing in the IPTM register —

the four existing Pakistan entries are all minerals or trade-ban instruments (Balochistan Mines & Minerals Act, SRO 750 India transit trade ban, SIFC, US-Pakistan critical-minerals MoU).

• Projected USD 1 billion/year reduction in petroleum-product imports

reshapes Pakistan's structural current-account exposure to oil prices. Combined with the parallel Brownfield Refinery Upgradation Policy (also queued for filing), this is the demand-side leg of a coordinated fuel-products import-substitution strategy.

• Two- and three-wheeler segments dominate Pakistan's vehicle parc,

so the policy's targeting of these segments is high-leverage even with a modest absolute subsidy envelope.

• Sectoral demand pull for lithium-ion cells, motors, controllers, and

charging hardware — most of which Pakistan will import — creates a new China-Pakistan supply-chain dependency vector adjacent to the CPEC architecture.

Open questions

• Tariff-line structure on CBU vs CKD vs SKD imports under the new

policy — the press release references "restructured auto-import tariff lines" but the final policy PDF must be parsed for the per-segment rate schedule.

• Role of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) in subsidy disbursement —

queue rationale referenced SBP routing but the primary press release describes a "fully digital platform" without naming SBP as the channel.

• Whether the NEV policy includes any export-incentive component for

Pakistani-assembled EVs (e.g., to Afghanistan, Central Asia) or is purely import-substitution.

• Interaction with the Auto Industry Development & Export Policy

(AIDEP) 2021-26 — does NEV supersede AIDEP's EV provisions or layer on top?