Electric scooter and bike market in Pakistan has run out of stock, as surging petrol prices push hundreds of thousands of riders toward cleaner, cheaper alternatives across the country.
Around 40,000 electric vehicles were sold in Pakistan during April alone, with electric scooters accounting for 90 percent and electric bikes making up the remaining 10 percent.
Demand has significantly exceeded supply, with buyers now waiting up to thirty days and paying advances of ten thousand to fifteen thousand rupees per unit to secure orders.
Popular models such as the T5-L, Velax and M3-H face the most severe shortages, as their Chinese-made completely knocked down component kits remain critically limited in the local market.
Industry response
Director of Sales and Marketing at Evee, Hamza Asad, said assemblers had already placed larger import orders with Chinese suppliers to resolve the current supply shortage as soon as possible.
Hamza Asad further added full availability of electric scooters and bikes across the country was expected to be restored by twenty-fifth May or the first of June this year.
Asad stated that if government policies remained supportive, total electric vehicle sales could potentially reach five hundred thousand units by the end of December 2026.
VLEKTRA founder and Chief Executive Syed Raza Mohsin described the current shortage as short-term market tightness caused by the petrol hike and strong uptake through the government’s PAVE electrification programme.
Mohsin said suppliers across the industry were actively increasing their production capacity and the supply situation was expected to normalise within two to three months.
Design and policy calls
Bike expert and dealer Muhammad Sabir Shaikh urged manufacturers to adopt masculine scooter designs, featuring 14-inch wheels, lithium iron phosphate batteries with hundred kilometres range.
Shaikh called on policymakers to allow commercial battery imports for five years at one percent sales tax and one percent customs duty under policy framework.
He noted removing the requirement for a paint shop as a condition for obtaining an assembling licence would lower market entry barriers for new manufacturers.
Electric scooters brands retail between two hundred fifty thousand and six hundred thousand rupees, while children’s bikes cost between one hundred and fifty thousand rupees.
Fuel price backdrop
Last Friday, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif approved increases of Rs19.39 per litre for diesel and Rs6.51 for petrol, pushing prices close to Rs400 per litre for both fuels.
Petrol consumers are paying Rs153.55 per litre in combined taxes, levies, and margins, with the petroleum levy alone contributing more than Rs103 per litre to total costs.
Additional charges include Rs23.72 per litre in customs duty, Rs2.50 in climate levy, freight costs, company profits, and dealer commissions, all further raising the final petrol price.
Diesel users pay about Rs116.46 per litre in taxes and margins, including customs duty, petroleum levy, climate charges, freight, company profits, and dealer commissions combined.
Taxes account for roughly 32 percent of petrol prices and 21 percent of diesel, underscoring the heavy burden on consumers, the transport sector, and industrial activity.
