Delhi strengthens EV push with 25 new low-cost charging stations

Delhi Chief Minister Atishi and elder Aam Aadmi Party person Manish Sisodia connected Wednesday inaugurated 25 low-cost EV charging stations successful Mayur Vihar Phase-1, officials said.

The determination is portion of the Delhi government's broader strategy to combat contamination and beforehand the usage of electrical vehicles (EVs), reinforcing the city's presumption arsenic India's EV capital, an authoritative connection said.
Speaking astatine the event, Atishi emphasised Delhi government's committedness to fostering a sustainable aboriginal done a robust EV infrastructure.

"Delhi present boasts of much than 2,400 EV charging points, offering the lowest rates successful the country. It is the crushed wherefore 12 per cent of each caller vehicles registered successful Delhi are electric," Atishi said, adding that the metropolis is besides location to the second-largest fleet of electrical buses globally.

The caller charging stations managed by Delhi Transco Limited took the full fig of government-operated charging points to 78, the connection said.

Each presumption features aggregate charging points designed to guarantee accessibility and affordability for EV users crossed the city, it added.

Praising the inaugural arsenic a measurement towards making the superior a hub for greenish mobility, Sisodia said, "These charging stations are the powerfulness banks of a modern Delhi. Despite challenges, we person achieved 12 per cent EV adoption among caller conveyance registrations, laying instauration for a cleaner, healthier future." He besides underscored the value of an educated and visionary enactment successful achieving specified milestones.

"Educated leaders physique infrastructure; uneducated leaders foster crime. With leaders similar Arvind Kejriwal and Atishi, Delhi has proven that a beardown governmental volition tin flooded the toughest challenges, including pollution," Sisodia said.

Highlighting the occurrence of Delhi's EV policy, which offers subsidies, taxation exemptions, and affordable charging infrastructure, Atishi said, "Under the guidance of Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi has shown that effectual governance tin crook imaginativeness into reality. The time is not acold erstwhile Delhi's EV exemplary volition beryllium recognised worldwide, conscionable similar its acquisition model."