India’s largest electric vehicle (EV) charging station with a capacity of 121 charging points for four-wheelers is opened in Gurugram’s Sector 86.
With the new EV station, the city now has two of the largest electric vehicle charging stations in the nation. The first EV station was opened in January which would facilitate 100 four-wheelers to charge at the same time and is located at Sector 52 of Gurugram.
The Ease of Doing Business Program has aided Alektrify Private Limited to develop an EV charging station that has 75 AC, 25 DC along with 21 hybrid charging points with a potential of charging about 1,000 cars within a day.
While inaugurating, National Programme Director, Ease of Doing Business program and Project Director of National Highway for Electric Vehicle (NHEV), Abhijeet Sinha said, “This is our second prototype station, 2 more stations of same size and scale will be installed in Noida within 60 days for Delhi-Agra E-Highway which will conclude the prototype modeling E-hubs”.
He further added that 30 more E-Highway charging stations will be constructed within a record time. It will be launched in 90 days from their date of allocations to PSUs/ private entities.