Mumbai, Maharashtra
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has launched the EV charging station at Kohinoor building parking lot in Dadar (Mumbai). This is the first EV charging station in a public parking lot (PPL).
State Environment Minister Aaditya Thackeray inaugurated the EV charging station and said that more such stations would come up. Civic officials said they were also planning to install solar energy plants instead of conventional energy for charging points. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has planned Public Electric Vehicles Charging Stations (PEVCs) across 29 civic-run public parking lots in the city.
The EV charging station at Dadar west has the capacity to charge 72 vehicles in a day, with a 2 DC fast charger, which can charge four vehicles at a time, and three slow chargers that can charge three vehicles at a time. The DC fast charger is industrial-grade equipment, which can completely charge a vehicle in 1-1.5 hours, whereas the domestic-grade AC charger or slow charger takes six to seven hours to do the same job.
In the first phase, the civic body plans to procure about 100 vehicles for official purposes and transportation of garbage by the Solid Waste Management (SWM) department.
Source: The Indian Express
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