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Taking the step ahead towards the use of electric vehicles within the country, the government of India has finally announced the policy pertaining for the development of charging facilities. According to the recent reports, a document was sent to the government from the Ministry of Power on December 14, 2018, detailing the facts that would be kept in concern while implementation of the plan. It is reported that during the first phase, the electric mobility would be encouraged in the cities like Mumbai, Bangaluru, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Hyderbad, Kolkata, Pune, and Surat, where the population is more than 4 million. It is also reported that to encourage the use of electric vehicles within the country, the Indian government will provide benefits like green number plates to the owners of these cars.

 

 

It would be interesting to know that with an objective to boost the facility of charging stations, the government will adopt the de-licensing policy, thus encouraging the instant establishment of charging stations. The charging stations will also be given freedom to receive electricity from any of the power companies. Along with this, the charging stations will be preferred by the power supplying companies after receiving an application from their side. Moving ahead the charging stations established by electric car manufacturers will also be given preference as compared to private charging stations. The fuel filling stations will be required to develop a firewall for making the separation between fuel pumping and electric charging station.

 

 

Moving ahead each charging station will require to have three high-speed charging stations, one combined charging system style plug, one charge de Move and one Type – 2 AC fast charger. Among these charging plugs the first two plugs will have a minimum output of 50kW and 200-1000 volts, the second type of plugs will have the minimum power of 22 kW and have 380-400 volts. The additional charging plugs will be required to have two slow/moderate charging points, one with a Bharat DC-001 connection with 15 kW and 72-22 volts and the other.

 

 

It is also announced that the cities where the first phase of electrification will be implemented will be required to develop one charging station in a grid of 3000 meters or 3 kms. Similarly, there will be an electric charging station at the distance of every 25 kms. The government has also determined the key corridors which will have the charging stations for both the small private vehicles and large commercial vehicles.