Mumbai’s first public EV charging station inaugurated, many more to follow, says Aaditya Thackeray

A month after the Maharashtra government rolled out its new Electric Vehicle (EV) Policy, state Environment Minister Aaditya Thackeray on Tuesday inaugurated an EV charging station at Kohinoor building parking lot in Dadar West. It is the first public parking lot (PPL) in the city to get an EV charging station.

The station has a capacity to charge 72 vehicles in a day, with a 2 DC Fast charger, which can charge four vehicles at a time, and three slow chargers that can charge three vehicles at a time. The DC fast charger is industrial-grade equipment, which can completely charge a vehicle in 1-1.5 hours, whereas the domestic-grade AC charger or slow charger takes six to seven hours to do the same job.