PUNE In a bid to make Pune the first electric vehicles-ready city in India, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is planning to undertake many infrastructural policies. One such infrastructural policy is the installation of battery-swapping stations. Under the 15th finance commission (FC) funds, ₹15 crore has been allotted for 625 battery-swapping stations.
Additional municipal commissioner Kunal Khemnar, who is the chairperson of the electric vehicles’ (EV) cell of the PMC, said, “We have added the proposal of battery-charging stations for e-mobility. It will take at least six months for it to get commercially developed.”
Recently, the EV cell of the PMC held a meeting with the commissioner, industry stakeholders, and the RTO. “According to the feedback received in the meeting, the battery-swapping technology is in its initial stages. There needs to be a particular kind of ecosystem for the same,” said Khemnar.
