Charging EVs in India has caused range anxiety to most EV buyers and those who look forward to buying one in future, however, things are improving slowly and steadily across the country. While states like Delhi and Maharashtra are far ahead in terms of adopting EVs, other states are still catching up with the race so that India archives its carbon neutrality target within 2030.
Now, EV charging takes time as we know and if any one of the charging plug points is busy the other person has to wait, so even though we are growing EV Charging stations we will also increase the number of ports in the future. As of now, adding more charging stations at extreme corners is the priority for the government and regulators as of now, unless, both get support, neither these operators nor consumers will actually benefit.
Kavinder Khurana, Managing Director at Tesla Power India says they are working to instal 5000 EV Charging Stations across India by 2025
So, in an interview with Hindustan Times, Kavinder Khurana talked about Tesla’s plans to develop the EV charging infrastructure of India and looks forward to its other businesses rather than jumping with its cars in India. Now, as we know, four-wheeler EVs do not even represent 1% of total vehicles in India but in terms of two-wheelers, the adoption level is insane as per the latest reports by OLA Electric, the market leader in that space.
Khurana says Tesla Power India is working with three major PSUs that have oil stations across the country and they are working to tie up with them to make EV Charging stations inside or outside of these oil stations. As we know, there are about 81,000 fuel stations in India and the Indian government envisions putting EV charging stations across all of them but that won’t so easy so private companies like Tesla could in fact help to achieve that dream.
He went on to say that Tesla has worked to put as many as 700 such multi-brand EV charging stations across a number of petrol pumps in India with Bharat AC 001 and DC 001 charging facilities. Now, they are focussed to ramp up this number to 5000 within the next 3 years and as Khurana mentioned, these stations won’t be profitable unless people buy more EVs and start using them, however, Indian people remain sceptical unless they see enough EV charging stations across their places to avoid range anxieties.
