As part of Essel Group’s Essel Green Mobility Limited program Essel Infraprojects (EIL) has launched its electric vehicles charging stations and battery swapping technology in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
PM Narendra Modi laid the foundation for the charging stations and the battery swapping technology initiative. The initiative comes along with an investment of Rs. 1750 crore.
This EIL’s project involves 250 charging stations and 1000 battery swapping points, is one of the several EV projects announced by the state authorities on July 29, 2018.
Additionally, EIL will install 25000 e-rickshaws which will generate employment of around 50,000 individuals in the state. The project is aimed at reducing overall cost of battery charging and providing options to cut the high consumption of other non-renewable resources.
Further, the battery swapping stations are to be tracked through a mobile application. The stations will be used to swap charged batteries and would thereby increase the running time for the electric vehicles.
The project would be operational in major cities- Lucknow, Kanpur, Agra, Noida, Meerut, Varanasi, Gorakhpur, Allahabad and Ghaziabad, in the first phase followed by other cities.
Reference- Financial Express, KhabarIndia