Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (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 stated at an occasion right here on Friday. “The fast-charging stations have been installed between 110 fuel stations which have been divided into various electric corridors.” BPCL Executive Director Incharge (Retail) P S Ravi stated 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 just 30 minutes to charge an EV, giving a driving range of up to 125 km at our fuel stations. Therefore we have maintained a distance of 100 km between two charging stations,” Pushp Kumar Nayar, Head of Retail within the South, stated on the launch.
Ravi stated the quick chargers had been straightforward to make use of and may very well be self-operated with none guide help, regardless that assist workers can be obtainable if wanted.
“BPCL has digitised the entire EV charger locator, charger operations, and transaction process through the HelloBPCL app for an online hassle-free and transparent user experience,” Ravi added.
The firm has launched EV corridors connecting vital non secular and vacationer locations with cities, akin to Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh and Bandipur National Park in Karnataka, Guruvayoor and Kadampuzha temples in Kerala, Vallarpadam National shrine of Basilica at Kochi, Koratty and Markaz Knowledge City 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 includes over 20,000 vitality stations, over 6,200 LPG distributorships, 733 lubricant distributorships, and 123 POL (petroleum, oil, and lubricant) storage places, 54 LPG bottling crops, 60 aviation service stations, 4 lubricant mixing crops and 4 cross-country pipelines.
