EV Motors India Pvt. Ltd. (EVMIPL), a Delhi-based start-up, has installed its first electric vehicle charging station. Located in Gurugram Haryana, the outlet is tagged as PlugNgo. It is the first of 6,500 charging stations that EVMIPL aims to install in the next five years. The company has joined forces with DLF, ABB India and Delta Electronics to carry out its five-year project, which will attract an investment of $200 million (approximately Rs 1,397 crore at current exchange rates).

Here’s what Vinit Bansal, MD, EVMIPL, said in an official statement:

“For the nation to progress towards the vision of a large fleet of EVs across the country, a co-ordinated approach between real estate developers, vehicle OEMs and charger manufacturers is necessary and we thank our partners for all their support and look forward to a continued engagement with them.”

In the next 12 months, EVMIPL aims to install 20 PlugNgo charging stations across Delhi-NCR. This expansion will be followed by establishing similar EV charging outlets in cities such as Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Kanpur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Amritsar, Bhubaneshwar, Cochin, Indore and Chennai. The official release said that the expansion to cities outside Delhi-NCR would commence in next one year. The charging stations will be equipped to serve all kinds of e-vehicles, including two- and three-wheelers, passenger cars and buses.

A robust support system for the PlugNgo outlets is a must, and EVMIPL will be doing just that via a mobile application. Apart from round the clock service, maintenance support and remote vehicle charging monitoring, the application also let users pay for the charge used via various payment methods, including credit cards and e-wallets. The app, which is available for both Android and iOS platforms, will also provide assistance service to any vehicle that has been caught short of charge within in half-an-hour.

Developments such as this will surely help in setting up the support infrastructure for pure electric vehicles at a faster rate. Apart from private players, we’ve also seen government-run bodies, such as EESL and NTPC, taking charge of shifting the dependence from internal combustion engines to zero-emission electric vehicles.

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Rachit Shad Trehan
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