Minister for Energy and Kannada and Culture V Sunil Kumar announced that more than 1,000 Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (EVCS) would be set up across Karnataka in the coming months. A special drive will be launched in June by ESCOMs for pushing EV infrastructure in a big way.
“By June 30, we hope to establish maximum number of charging stations, as preparations for the same have begun with Karnataka committed to promote zero emission transport,” the Minister stated after inaugurating a national symposium on ‘Electric Vehicles and their charging technologies’, organised jointly by Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Corporation Limited (CESC) and the KEB Engineers’ Association (KEBEA) at Kadakola near Mysuru.
Nearly 207 EV charging stations have been proposed in CESC’s limits covering five districts, and space for establishing the facilities has been identified. BESCOM, which is the nodal agency for EV charging technologies, will soon be giving its nod for floating tenders to the proposals from ESCOMs.
