In another step to boost the shift to electric vehicles, the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has identified 106 locations across the city for establishing EV charging stations. The civic body will lease out these identified areas to the private players for setting up and operating charging stations.
As per the officials, the corporation will float the expression of interest (EoI) by month-end.
The NMC has been making recurring efforts to bring in a behavioural change among people to make car buyers prefer EVs over fossil-fuel propelled vehicles. Also, the corporation has brought out a policy for buying CNG vehicles and EVs for its departments.
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In a recent initiative, the civic body has ordered all the new residential buildings with at least 25 flats to set up EV charging stations and for additional 25 flats, there must be two EV charging stations. As per this, residential societies with 50 flats or more must have two EV charging stations.
