Tata Power and Tata Motors announce their partnership to install 300 fast charging stations by the end of the FY20, across key five cities namely Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Bangalore and Hyderabad. Today, both companies inaugurated their first 7 charging stations in Pune, to enable the e-mobility drive in the city. Over the next two months, 45 more chargers will be installed across the other four cities. These chargers will be installed at Tata Motors dealerships, certain Tata Group retail outlets and other public locations.
The chargers will be operated by Tata Power and will adhere to Bharat Standard (15 kW) for the initial 50 chargers. Going forward, we will also have charging stations that will adhere to 30-50 kW DC CCS2 Standard. These chargers can be accessed by any electric vehicle user, having cars compatible to the above charging standards. Tata Power and Tata Motors have jointly developed an attractive charging tariff for Tata Motors EV customers.
Speaking at the occasion, Ramesh Subramanyam, Chief Finance Officer and President of New Businesses at Tata Power, said, “EVs are among important efforts to reduce vehicular air pollution. While the Government is pushing EVs at a policy level, it is important that the automobile industry plays its role in speedy adoption of EVs in the passenger vehicles segment.”
Subramanyam said insights of Tata Motors, in terms of understanding traffic pattern and identifying locations where EV users will expect to recharge, will be an important aspect of collaboration between the partner companies. He said the charging station network will be open to all users of EVs though Tata Motors customers will benefit from the incentives Tata Power will offer. “Customers who purchase EV from Tata Motors will get to charge the vehicles free of cost for three months from the date of purchase,” he said.
Commenting on the collaboration, Shailesh Chandra, President of Electric Mobility Business and Corporate, at Tata Motors Ltd., said, “We are happy to partner with Tata Power for taking the first step in developing ubiquitous EV charging infrastructure in India. This partnership is an important milestone in our journey to offer complete ecosystem solutions and offer peace of mind to our customers. We remain committed to the sustainable mobility mission and will continue to work towards bringing aspirational e-mobility solutions for the customers, leading the drive towards faster adoption of electric vehicles in the country.”
Tata Power’s current EV infrastructure presence in Mumbai is 42 charging points and its mobility infrastructure footprint is in multiple cities including Hyderabad, Bangalore and Delhi with a total of 85 charging points set up across various usage scenarios. The company has signed landmark MoUs for setting up commercial scale EV charging stations at HPCL, IOCL, and IGL retail outlets. The company also partnered with Tata Motors earlier to support Maharashtra Government’s vision of promoting e-mobility in the State by setting up public EV charging stations.
