The world might be heading towards a more electric car-centric mindset, with more car companies producing excellent examples as a good indication, but India wants to be ahead of every other country in this regard. As a result, the nation’s leaders recently shared the goal of only having electric vehicles being sold its market by 2030.

India energy minister Piyush Goyal unveiled the plan during the recent Confederation of Indian Industry Annual Session 2017, which was held in New Delhi, the Independent reports. Apart from the obvious environmental factors that play into the equation, the minister also notes that electric vehicles will considerably lower costs with regards to fuel importation.

Such reasons do make a lot of sense, but Forbes ventures to dig deeper into the real reasons as to why India might want to only have electric cars running in its streets as soon as possible. This would be the country’s desire to end its dependence on outside sources of essential resources, which obviously includes fuel.

For centuries, the Asian country was forced to be a spectator as other nations played with its economy and social development until it gained independence in 1947. In the decades before that, it was under occupation by one country or another, with the last nation to count it as a conquest being England.

During those times when it was under foreign occupation, India didn’t enjoy much of its success even as its economic wealth continued to grow. As a result, it’s only natural that the country would be want to gain as much independence as it possibly could, including severing its dependence on other nations that might shortchange it in terms of oil prices.

Whatever the case may be, it’s still excellent news on the green energy front that another country is committed to get rid of gas vehicles. This is even more important now due to India’s worsening air pollution problem, Futurism reports.