Industry
BESCOM will charge you for charging e-vehiclesedit
It’s bad enough when your phone runs out of charge but it’s worse when your Electric Vehicle (EV) is down to low charge. Well, there’s no need to panic if you left home without charging your EV because in less than a month’s time, the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited (BESCOM) will be installing 100 charging points at 80 locations. These charging stations can be accessed easily via an app and one can book a slot in advance to avoid any queues.
Battery woes tripping up India’s electric vehicles dreamsedit
Even as India has lined up an ambitious plan to promote electric vehicles (EV), the availability of top-quality lithium-ion batteries remains a pain point for EV companies, since local manufacturing is yet to take off and EV makers depend on China for imports.
Govt to push for shared mobility to curb pollution, congestionedit
Aimed at curbing pollution and decongesting urban roads, the road transport and highways ministry, in a first, plans to issue national level comprehensive guidelines soon that will spell out details for shared mobility. The guidelines will especially special focus on private car pooling services.
Unorganised players with cost edge lead the e-rickshaw raceedit
More than two years after organised players like Kinetic, Hero Electric and Mahindra & Mahindra forayed into the growing e-rickshaw market they are yet to gain a toehold in this space. An electric-vehicle revolution is gaining ground in India, home to about 1.5 million battery-powered, three wheeled rickshaws — a fleet bigger than the number of electric passenger cars sold in China since 2011.
FAME-II: Stricter norms lead to slump of electric vehicle sales in H1edit
Representational ImageHit by stringent compliance norms, only around 3,000 electric two-wheelers were registered and sold under the government’s subsidy programme – FAME-II scheme – in the first six months (April-September) against over 75,000 units registered last year, people aware of the matter said.
Big drive for e-vehicles: Kerala government offices turn charging stationsedit
In a practical step that is bound to encourage a lot of people to shift to less polluting and energy efficient electric vehicles, the state government is planning to install charging facilities on the premises of government offices that face highways and arterial roads.
Competition
EV charging outlets upedit
Mumbai-based start-up Magenta Power is setting up charging stations for electric vehicles across the Mumbai-Pune expressway and plans to set up a similar chain across the Pune-Bangalore and Bangalore-Mysore highways by March.
International
Why plans for a nationwide roll out of electric cars over the next decade are stallingedit
Of the 38.7million vehicles licensed for use on British roads, just 223,000 are electric cars. And without billions spent on a national network of car chargers, the man on the street won’t buy into them, experts have warned today. This comes in the same week as the announcement that drivers of electric cars in the UK may soon be using green number plates.
Troubled Chinese Electric-Car Maker Loses Finance Chiefedit
The chief financial officer of troubled Chinese electric-car maker NIO Inc. is leaving the company just as it struggles to ramp up sales and avoid a cash crunch. Louis Hsieh has resigned as CFO for personal reasons, NIO said Monday in a statement, adding it has started to look for a replacement.
ABB buys majority stake in Chinese electric vehicle charging companyedit
ABB has bought a majority stake in Shanghai Chargedot New Energy Technology Co. Ltd, a Chinese electric vehicle charging company, the Swiss engineering company said on Monday as its ramps up its operations in e-mobility. Chargedot, which employs 185 people, makes charging stations and software platforms to enable vehicles to be charged with electricity.