PUNE With fuel prices sky rocketing, Puneites are turning towards electric bikes and cars. In a bid to give facilities to customers, several cafes, private firms, restaurants and shops have installed electric charging points in their premises. The Pune Regional Transport Office (RTO) has seen an increase in registrations of electric bikes.
Sunny’s Cafe in Kothrud, near the MIT college, has set up a special charging point for e-bikes here. “As many college students have started using e-bikes, one of them asked us if we have a charging port. These students visit our cafe and sit here for hours, so we thought to have such charging point which will be beneficial for our customers and also we can earn something out of it,” said Sunny Waghmare owner of the cafe.
Another grocery shop owner Ketan Rathi from Hadapsar said, “There is always a rush of customers at our shops, and when there is a long queue many times customers have to wait for an hour.
