Preview of Trained Manpower in Electric Vehicle Sector

Segment of electrically operated vehicles will rise in coming years. Future transportation will be battery operated electric vehicles or fuel cell driven electric vehicles. There will be a huge demand for trained manpower to cater all kinds of requirements of such change in the transportation sector. Infrastructure development, vehicle development, software and IoT, service after sales requires different kinds of trained manpower. Generating such manpower is the responsibility of education policy makers. Correct predictions about growth of industry and their needs are very important. This paper presents the current situation of the electric vehicle sector and present as well as near future trained manpower available in this domain. It also discusses issues associated with scaling up of trained manpower in the electric vehicle sector. Various aspects of manpower planning, requirements, and challenges in it are brought out clearly so that policy makers can use them to transform the education sector.