Electric vehicles (EVs) are seen as an essential part of a green and clean future, especially as our cities choke with pollution. Enter Nimesh Shah, who used data and cutting-edge tools to frame a strategic methodology for putting in place the charging infrastructure, the lack of which has been a key obstacle to large-scale adoption of EVs.
Shah won the top prize at the Business Standard Best B-School Project Award 2018 for his project on mapping the availability of charging infrastructure for EVs in Bengaluru for SUN Mobility, a company that develops innovative solutions for electric mobility needs.
A 27-year-old final-year MBA candidate at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University’s (PDPU’s) School of Petroleum Management in Gandhinagar, Shah took up the project after the Karnataka government announced a policy for 5,000 new electric-autos in Bengaluru. The project’s objective was to identify locations for charging/swapping stations for these e-autos across the city, says Shah. In the end, the project identified strategic locations where such stations could be deployed.
