India can lead by developing a “National Hybrid Propulsion Platform”, focusing on hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and undertaking the development of environment friendly and energy efficient transportation technologies through a multi pronged approach:

• Key Component Focus : Developing a Sustainable Marketplace
• Vehicle Focus : Advancing Propulsion Technologies
• Student Focus : Investing in the Future Workforce

New and innovative solutions would be developed in each of these key focus areas by bringing together the best minds in India in a strategic collaboration of academia, government, and the top OEMs.
This partnership could be a 50:50 cost share proposition between the Indian Government and the OEMs (i.e. the industry).

Indian citizens would benefit greatly from this proposition because this would be used to create energy efficient and sustainable transportation technologies which would improve energy security, decrease pollution, develop cost competitive technologies that consumers can afford.