Under the Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) procurement program, energy storage provider Exicom has won the tender to deploy 2,000 Electric Vehicle (EV) chargers.
Under the tender, 1,800 of 3.3 kW AC chargers and 200 of 15 kW DC fast chargers will be deployed across the country. The chargers will be used to power TATA Tigor and Mahindra e-Verito cars procured by EESL.
Competition is heating up in India’s EV sector as the Indian government is currently targeting the sale of 6-7 million new hybrid and electric vehicles by 2020 under the National Electric Mobility Mission Plan (NEMMP), making EVs the next big cleantech opportunity in India.
For this India’s renewable energy sector needs a strong backbone in the form of a robust energy storage industry in order to sustain its growth trajectory. Exicom is playing its bit in that growth story.