256 electric vehicle charging stations to come up in TN under FAME scheme

He said the government has given sanction for setting up 2,636 charging stations in 62 cities across 24 states and Union Territories as well. The Department of Heavy Industry had invited expressions of interest from entities for availing incentives under the FAME India Scheme Phase II for deploying charging stations within cities.

In response thereof, about 106 proposals from public/private entities for the deployment of about7,000 EV charging stationswere received.

“By installing all these charging stations, it is expected that at least one charging station will be available in most of the selected cities in a grid of 4 km x 4 km, which will boost the confidence of users of electric vehicles in terms of range anxiety and also this will encourage the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to launch the new electric vehicle models for which they were hesitant earlier because of lack of charging infrastructure,” he said.

Under the second phase of the FAME India (Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles in India) scheme, 317 EV charging stations have been sanctioned in Maharashtra, 266 in Andhra Pradesh, 256 in Tamil Nadu, 228 in Gujarat, 205 in Rajasthan, 207 in Uttar Pradesh, 172 in Karnataka, 159 in Madhya Pradesh, 141 in West Bengal, 138 in Telangana, 131 in Kerala, 72 in Delhi, 70 in Chandigarh, 50 in Haryana, 40 in Meghalaya, 37 in Bihar, 29 in Sikkim, 25 each in Jammu, Srinagar, and Chhattisgarh, 20 in Assam, 18 in Odisha and 10 each in Uttarakhand, Puducherry and Himachal Pradesh.

Sanction letters to the selected entities will be issued in phases after ensuring availability of land for charging stations, signing of necessary agreements/MoUs with partner organisations concerned like city municipal corporation/discoms/oil companies etc.

Out of these 2,636 charging stations, 1,633 will be fast charging stations whereas the remaining 1,003 slow charging stations. About 14,000 chargers will be installed across the selected cities.