New Delhi, a complete of four,557 electric powered vehicle (EV) public charging stations (pcss) had been installed throughout a length of 146,342 km on the nation, national Highways, and Expressways in the usa, the parliament changed into informed on Wednesday.
Uttar Pradesh leads with 507 public EV charging stations, followed by using karnataka at 489, maharashtra at 459, tamil Nadu at 456 and rajasthan at 424, street shipping and Highways minister Nitin Gadkari said in a written reply to a query within the Rajya Sabha.
"As in step with statistics available with the Bureau of strength performance (BEE), a total of four,557 EV Public Charging Stations (pcss) have been set up at the nation/national Highways/expressways within the us of a," he said.
The minister further said that there may be no scheme for imparting incentives to the Charging factor Operators (cpos).
In the meantime, four,625 EV charging stations are currently operational in tier 2 towns inside the u . S . A . (as on april 1, 2025).
The government recently said that with a economic outlay of Rs 2,000 crore, the PM E-pressure scheme will aid the set up of approximately 72,000 EV public charging stations across the u . S . A .. These stations might be strategically deployed alongside 50 national motorway corridors, within high-visitors destinations such as metro towns, toll plazas, railway stations, airports, fuel stores, and kingdom highways, the Ministry of Heavy industries had said in a statement.
The PM E-force scheme changed into released in october 2024 to boost up the adoption of electrical automobiles (evs) via call for incentives and expand EV charging infrastructure nationwide. The Centre has allocated Rs 10,900 crore for subsidies to evs underneath this scheme.
The Centre has additionally allocated Rs 873.50 crore towards the set up of 8,932 electric powered automobile Public Charging Stations (EVPCS) through the 3 oil advertising agencies (omcs), particularly IOCL, bpcl and HPCL, under the reputation-II Scheme.
Earlier this month, the authorities released a groundbreaking scheme to offer economic incentives for electric vehicles (e-trucks) below the PM E-pressure initiative, with the maximum incentive set at Rs 9.6 lakh consistent with car.
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