Page 14 - Electric Vehicles

GoZero plans to invest $1 million for expanding presence to North-East

British premium electric bike maker GoZero, which has partnered with Kolkata-based Kirti Solar for product development and manufacturing, on Thursday said it plans to invest USD 1 million to expand its presence to India's northeast market. GoZero, which has its R&D centre in Birmingham (UK), entered the Indian market in 2019 by setting up its location operations base in Kolkata with Kirti Solar. Its current product range includes One, Mile and Skellig series of e-bicycles. GoZero Mobility is looking to spread its wings to northeastern India with plans to invest USD 1 million and create over 100 jobs in the region in the next three years, the company said in a statement. The electric vehicle revolution is gathering pace in India and GoZero Mobility has defined an aggressive road map to tap into the opportunity and ride on the increasing popularity of clean vehicles in the country's northeastern region, it said. GoZero Mobility co-founder Sumit Ranjan said, "India is one the largest

India close to finalising incentives under new battery swap scheme: Report

The policy will initially focus on battery swap services for electric scooters, motorcycles and three-wheeled auto rickshaws

Tata Power to set up EV charging stations at vehicle zones of Apollo Tyres

Tata Power has partnered with Apollo Tyres to deploy electric vehicle charging stations at the latter's commercial and passenger vehicle zones across India. Tata Power and Apollo Tyres have announced a strategic partnership in this regard, a statement said. Tata Power has a presence across all the segments of the EV charging ecosystem and has deployed all types of chargers DC 001, AC, Type2, Fast DC chargers up to 50kwh and up to 240kwh chargers for buses. "We are glad to partner with Apollo Tyres for the deployment of EV charging stations across their commercial & passenger vehicle zones. This partnership reflects our commitment to developing and expanding the electric vehicle ecosystem in the country," Praveer Sinha, CEO and MD of Tata Power, stated. Based on location, this classification of chargers will support EV charging for two-wheelers and four-wheelers, respectively. As per the agreement between Apollo Tyres and Tata Power, the latter will set up Charging Stations at 150

Delhi govt to launch guidebook for EV charging at shopping malls

The Delhi government has announced that it is launching a guidebook to simplify and enable the adoption of Electric Vehicle (EV) charging in parking lots of shopping malls

Budget 2022: Battery swapping policy big booster for EVs, says industry

The Union Budget for 2022-23 aims at strengthening the whole ecosystem of the EV industry, which will spur the demand for green vehicles, the EV industry said on Tuesday.

India to introduce new policy for battery swapping in clean mobility push

Shares of Indian battery makers Amara Raja Batteries and Exide Industries rose 2% after the announcement

FM Sitharaman proposes battery swapping policy for EV charging stations

She also announced the introduction of modern building by-laws

Mass transport awaits a green revolution: How FM can power up EV industry

Clean energy public transport is crucially dependent on the mechanics of financing

India's Ather targets 1 million electric scooters a year as demand soars

By Aditi Shah

India's largest EV charging station opened at National Highway in Gurugram

India's largest electric vehicle (EV) charging station with a capacity of 100 charging points for 4 wheelers, was opened on Friday at Delhi-Jaipur National Highway in Gurugram.Previously, India's largest EV charging station was situated in Navi Mumbai with 16 AC & 4 DC charging ports for EVs.The new EV charging station has been developed by tech-piloting company Alektrify Private Limited."This station is now open with 96 chargers for technical inspection for various 'Certification Compliance' and 'Safety Standards' laid two week ago by Power Ministry, Govt of India and which also opened the doors for offering government land to government or public agencies and private entities for setting up charging stations on a revenue-sharing basis," the company said in a statement."This EV charging station will not only boost electric vehicles industry in the region, but will also act as a benchmark for large EV charging stations across the nation in future," it said.During the ...

Ola setting up Futurefoundry in UK, creating $100-mn vehicle design centre

Recent $200 mn funding to help Ola speed up development of other vehicle platforms, including e-motorbike, mass market scooter and electric car

Switch Mobility picks Valladolid for European market manufacturing unit

The new and technical centre will house the production of its first electric bus, a 12-metre vehicle, designed specifically the European market

EvGateway to offer simple EV-charging solutions to drivers across India

The company would help advance EV adoption with easy-to-use solutions for drivers and charger-owners

India to be big market for electric vehicles: Nissan COO Ashwani Gupta

The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi automobile alliance on Thursday announced its 2030 global roadmap that focuses on pure electric vehicles (EVs)

EV makers urge govt to ease PLI norms, expand charging infrastructure

Leading EV startups said on Thursday that the government should not only introduce standardised EV charging infrastructure across the country but also ease norms for EV manufacturing

Tesla quietly unveils fleet of new electric trucks, shows report

Elon Musk-owned electric vehicle company Tesla has quietly unveiled a fleet of new 'Tesla Semi' electric trucks as part of its new financial result report.

EV player Wardwizard Innovations on expansion spree, plans newer models

Plans afoot for 3-wheelers and capacity expansion of 2-wheelers along with ancillary cluster

Renault, Nissan to invest $26 bn to build a line-up of 35 EVs by 2030

The French-Japanese auto alliance of Renault and Nissan plans to invest 23 billion euros ($26 billion) in electric vehicle technology over the next five years, the companies said Thursday.

Jio-bp opens EV charging hub in Delhi; petrol pump count inching up

A joint venture of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and energy supermajor BP has opened one of the country's largest EV charging hubs in Delhi, as the duo scale up the fuel retail network

Bhavish Aggarwal-led Ola Electric starts work on building electric cars

According to sources, the SoftBank-backed company is gearing up to launch its electric car by 2024