PUNE: The Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) has announced the launch of 24 electric vehicle fast-charging stations on six major highways in the state.
The facility would be available for four-wheeler passenger electric vehicles (EVs) as of now. The company would charge the customers around Rs22 per 30 minutes of use, executive director (ED) Sanjeev Agarwal said. While EVs would be recharged in 30 minutes, it would provide a driving range of up to 125km.
EV owners would be able to use the charging stations via a pay-per-use online service. The company would cover 1,200km of roads, with the distance between two stations set at 100km. The six highways on which EV charging facility would be installed are Pune-Ahmednagar-Aurangabad, Pune-Solapur, Pune-Nashik, Pune-Kolhapur, Mumbai-Nashik and Nashik-Shirdi, a statement said.
“We are steadily moving towards converting 7,000 of our conventional retail outlets into energy stations, which is a part of a comprehensive decarbonisation strategy to support and prioritise sustainable initiatives,” the firm’s executive director, P S Ravi, said.
