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Kia launches $25bn strategy to spearhead shift to EVs

Kia Motors is aiming for a quarter of its sales to come from eco-friendly vehicles by the end of 2025

January 15, 2020 Anand Gupta

South Korean auto giant Kia Motors yesterday launched a long-term strategy to become a leader in electric vehicles (EVs) and mobility services, sketching out a detailed timeline for its transition from a business built on the internal combustion engine to a new powerhouse of the electric era. The ‘Plan S’ strategy knits together shorter term […]

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European EV Platform Everon Rolls Into US in Partnership With Arcadia

January 14, 2020 Anand Gupta

Collaboration would make it easier for electric car owners to charge up using renewable energy while keeping their billing simple. Arcadia, a clean-energy access startup, is helping European electric-vehicle charging platform Everon make its first foray into the United States with a new partnership announced Friday. “In general, EV charging is hard for customers, especially […]

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EV Charging Infrastructure Has a Soft Costs Problem

January 10, 2020 Anand Gupta

The EV charging industry needs to follow solar’s lead in streamlining installations, a new report from the Rocky Mountain Institute says. The U.S. solar industry has spent a decade working to streamline and reduce the “soft costs” of projects, which include less-visible expenses in areas like customer acquisition, permitting, financing and installation. Now it’s time […]

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Kerala to get 131 new charging stations for electric vehicles

January 6, 2020 Anand Gupta

In Kerala, 50 charging stations will be set up in Kochi, 28 in Thrissur, 27 in Kannur and 26 in Kozhikode cities. Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) will be in charge of these stations. Thiruvananthapuram: In order to encourage electric vehicles and reduce carbon emission, the central government has given sanction for setting up 2,636 […]

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In Phase-II to Fame India Scheme 2636 EV Charging Stations sanctioned

January 4, 2020 Anand Gupta

Will Encourage OEMs to Launch New Electric Vehicles – Prakash Javadekar To give a further push to clean mobility in Road Transport Sector, the Department of Heavy Industries has sanctioned 2636 charging stations in 62 cities across 24 States/UTs under FAME India (Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles in India) scheme phase II. As […]

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EESL signs MoU with HPCL to develop Public Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles

December 31, 2019 Anand Gupta

New Delhi: Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), a joint venture of four National Public Sector Enterprises under the Ministry of Power, Government of India, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), a Maharatna oil and natural gas company for setting up of Public Charging Infrastructure as part of the […]

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BMW now boasts of having 500,000 electric vehicles on the road

December 21, 2019 Anand Gupta

In an official tweet, BMW wrote that statistically, one EV was sold every four minutes and the company is aiming to sell one million EVs by 2021 Munich: Luxury carmaker BMW has announced that it has sold 500,000 electric vehicles (EVs), marking a major milestone for the industry as well as the brand. In an […]

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Union Minister Nitin Gadkari Talks About The Future Of Electric Vehicles

December 20, 2019 Anand Gupta

Talking about the future of electric cars, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has said that per km cost of an electric vehicle is Re 1 whereas that of petrol is Rs 7 Talking about the future of electric cars in India, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has said that per kilometer cost of an electric vehicle […]

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Battery swap technology will lower the cost of acquiring EVs: Piaggio MD

December 20, 2019 Anand Gupta

We will also be studying a fixed battery solution, so that when a customer is ready for it, we are in a position to market it, said Diegio Graffi, MD & CEO at Piaggio India On Wednesday, the Indian arm of Piaggio, the Italian automobile entity, entered the electric vehicle (EV) segment in this country […]

Ribbon cutting ceremony by Smt. Smt. Sunita Kangra, Mayor, South Delhi Municipal Corporation and Smt. Shikha Rai, Counselor of the area

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First electric vehicle public charging station by EESL inaugurated in SDMC area on National Energy Conservation Day

December 14, 2019 Anand Gupta

Charging station has been installed in the SDMC parking area in Greater Kailash 1 N Block market EESL to install more than 75 Charging stations in SDMC area Delhi: Advancing the effort to build a robust EV charging infrastructure to enable adoption of Electric Vehicles, South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC), a civic body […]

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