Assam records instalment of 139 EV charging stations since 2021

Indian Oil has installed up to 139

electric vehicle

In the current fiscal year, according to G Ramesh, executive director and state head of Indian Oil's Assam Oil Division, the company plans to install 230 additional EV charging stations throughout the northeast. "Building the charging stations will encourage people to switch to electric cars, which will help us all cut carbon emissions more quickly. The Central government has set a goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2070. But if we work together, we think we can achieve zero emissions by 2046, when our country will have been independent for 100 years.

Arunachal Pradesh has 27 EV charging stations, Meghalaya has 26, Assam has 139, Nagaland has 12, Tripura has 31, Arunachal Pradesh has 27, Arunachal Pradesh has 26, Manipur has 33, and Mizoram has two.

To encourage EVs, the Assam government introduced the "Electric Vehicle Policy" in 2021 and the "Vehicle Scrappage Policy" last year, with the goal of replacing all public transport and government vehicles with EVs by 2030 and destroying all cars older than 15 years.

The goal of the electric vehicle policy is to hasten the adoption of electric cars such that by 2026, they will account for 25% of all new vehicle registrations. The largest obstacle to the switch to EVs, nevertheless, has been the scarcity of charging facilities.

The state government offered an incentive of Rs 20,000, Rs 50,000, and Rs 150,000 for early adoption of EVs for

two-wheelers

In October of last year, Development Corporation Limited (Amtron) signed a contract with a German automaker to establish the northeast's first EV charging station production facility at the Tech City in Bongora, close to Guwahati.