EESL floats fresh tender for 1,000 electric vehicles
State-owned government transport provider Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) has floated a fresh tender to acquire 1,000 electric vehicles from automobile manufacturers in its effort to turn its entire fleet electric by 2030. The tender comes three years after the agency had floated an ambitious 10,000-EV tender in 2017, but sources say the total number of vehicles procured under it is substantially less.
Despite the lower than hoped for electrification of its fleet, EESL has received EV deliveries from companies like Tata Motors and Mahindra and Mahindra. The latest of these deliveries came from new auto market entrant MG Motor, which delivered the first batch of its new ZS electric SUVs last month.
