Dharamshala, 30th January: On Friday, India’s largest electric vehicle (EV) charging station was inaugurated in Sector 52, featuring 100 charging points for four-wheelers. Previously, the country’s largest EV charging station, with 16 AC and 4 DC charging connections for such vehicles, was located in Navi Mumbai.
The EV charging station in Gurugram, which contains 72 AC slow-chargers and 24 DC fast-chargers, was erected and is maintained by a National Motorways for Electric Vehicle (NHEV) partner company as part of a pilot project to turn the Delhi-Jaipur and Delhi-Agra highways into e-highways.
The goal of the pilot project is to show that having a charging station business has a competitive advantage over owning a gas station in terms of obtaining the requisite licensing, design, commissioning, installation, electrification, and safety certifications.
The station includes 96 operable electric vehicle charging connections and can serve up to 576 electric vehicles 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The remaining four charging stations will be ready to use soon. One AC charger can charge four vehicles in a day and takes up to six hours to power an EV. A DC charger, on the other hand, can charge a vehicle in under two hours and can comfortably power 12 EVs every day.
Electric vehicles, according to Abhijeet Sinha, Project Director, NHEV, are the future of transportation, for which this station was designed as a prototype.
According to Sudhendu J. Sinha, NITI Aayog’s Adviser (Infrastructure, Connectivity – Transport and Electric Mobility), India is dedicated to fighting environmental degradation and reaching carbon neutrality by 2070. He went on to say that electric vehicles would greatly assist India in meeting those goals.
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