BPCL Installs EV Fast-Charging Corridors Along 15 Highways in These States

Bharat Petroleum Company Restricted (BPCL) has introduced that it has launched 19 EV fast-charging corridors alongside 15 highways in Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu.

At roughly each 100 km on the corridors, one can discover an EV fast-charging station, a prime BPCL official mentioned at an occasion right here on Friday. “The fast-charging stations have been put in between 110 gas stations which have been divided into numerous electrical corridors.” BPCL Govt Director Incharge (Retail) P S Ravi mentioned the corporate had launched three corridors with 19 gas stations in Kerala, six corridors with 33 gas stations in Karnataka, and 10 corridors with 58 gas stations in Tamil Nadu.

“It takes simply half-hour to cost an EV, giving a driving vary of as much as 125 km at our gas stations. Subsequently we’ve maintained a distance of 100 km between two charging stations,” Pushp Kumar Nayar, Head of Retail within the South, mentioned on the launch.

Ravi mentioned the quick chargers had been simple to make use of and might be self-operated with none guide help, despite the fact that help workers can be obtainable if wanted.

“BPCL has digitised your entire EV charger locator, charger operations, and transaction course of by way of the HelloBPCL app for an internet hassle-free and clear person expertise,” Ravi added.

The corporate has launched EV corridors connecting vital spiritual and vacationer locations with cities, corresponding to Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh and Bandipur Nationwide Park in Karnataka, Guruvayoor and Kadampuzha temples in Kerala, Vallarpadam Nationwide shrine of Basilica at Kochi, Koratty and Markaz Information Metropolis in Thrissur, Kanyakumari and Meenakshi Amman Temple in Madurai amongst others.

Bharat Petroleum is the second-largest Indian oil advertising firm and one of many premier built-in vitality corporations in India.

Its distribution community contains over 20,000 vitality stations, over 6,200 LPG distributorships, 733 lubricant distributorships, and 123 POL (petroleum, oil, and lubricant) storage areas, 54 LPG bottling crops, 60 aviation service stations, 4 lubricant mixing crops and 4 cross-country pipelines.