The government is planning to install at least one electric vehicle (EV) charging kiosk at around 69,000 petrol pumps in the country. The government’s motive behind this is to encourage the demand for electric vehicles in the country. Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has said this. Gadkari said in a virtual conference that the government has taken several steps to encourage electric vehicles, including reducing the GST on these vehicles to 5 per cent, allowing the battery cost of electric toweler and three wheeler to be kept separate from the vehicle cost. Go included.
According to the minister, the battery charging ecosystem is very important. Therefore, the government is planning to install at least one electric vehicle charging kiosk at around 69,000 petrol pumps of the country so that people can move more towards electric mobility.
Saying that India is poised to become a global automobile manufacturing hub, Gadkari asked the automobile industry to step up manufacturing of flex engines. The specialty of these engines is that petrol or ethanol / CNG can be used as fuel in them. Gadkari further said that our auto industry has made a lot of progress in terms of developing various designs and models, research and development, big market, stable government framework and bright and young engineering minds. India has become the largest manufacturer of towels in the world.
