Adoption of Electric Vehicles; 22,000 EV charging stations to be set up by OMCs – EQ Mag Pro
Oil Marketing Companies including IOCL, BPCL, HPCL, will be setting up 22,000 EV charging stations in prominent cities and on national highways across the country.
New Delhi: India’s adoption towards manufacturing and promoting Electric Vehicles and charging station are increasing, towards this evolution the Indian Government has undertaken multiple initiatives in the country.
The Ministry of Power recently issued the revised consolidated Guidelines and Standards for EV charging infrastructure on January 14, 2022. With the considerable expansion in the public EV charging infrastructure, electric vehicles have started penetrating the Indian market.
Oil Marketing Companies including IOCL, BPCL, HPCL, will be setting up 22,000 EV charging stations in prominent cities and on national highways across the country.
The Government has made 360-degree efforts to enhance public charging infrastructure by involving private and public agencies (BEE, EESL, PGCIL, NTPC, etc.). Many private organizations have also come forward to install EV charging stations to develop a convenient charging network grid to gain consumers’ confidence. Ministry of Power (MoP) has planned that charging stations should be in an area of a 3×3 km grid. Currently, India has a total of 1640 operational public EV chargers. Out of which, 9 cities (Surat, Pune, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Chennai) account for approximately 940 stations.
There has been the additional installation of 678 public EV charging stations between October 2021 to January 2022 in these 9 cities, which is about 2.5 times of the earlier numbers, during the same period, about 1.8 lacs new electric vehicles. This has exhibited greater confidence among the consumers to shift towards electric mobility. After the saturation of EV infrastructure in these mega cities, the government has plans to expand the coverage to other cities in a phased manner.
Source: psuconnect
