Electric vehicle (EV) charging stations have expanded by two-and-a-half times across nine major cities, including the metros of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai in the last four months, as per the power ministry.
The other cities where electric vehicle charging infrastructure has come up are Pune, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Surat. The power ministry further informed that additional 678 public EV charging stations were installed between October 2021 and January 2022 in these nine cities. About 940 of India’s 1,640 public EV chargers are located in these cities.
The government has increased its focus initially on the nine mega cities with a population of over 4 million.
The ministry had recently issued the revised consolidated guidelines 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, the power ministry statement added.
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