Ola Electric revealed its plans to set up the world’s largest electric two-wheeler charging network. The plan is to have more than 1,00,000 charge points in 400 cities and by the end of 2021, there will be ​5,000 charging points across 100 cities in India!

Hero MotoCorp and Gogoro® Inc. today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the shift to sustainable electric mobility in India.

The company will put in fresh investments of ₹3,000 crore on its electric vehicles business in the next three years and has ambitions to sell 5 lakh EV's by 2025

By Kamlesh
​We had an opportunity to listen to Mr Nitin Gadkari about Electric Vehicles in the "The Raisina Dialogue 2021". The Dialogue is India’s flagship conference on geoeconomics and geopolitics and is held annually since 2016. The Dialogue is jointly organized by the External Affairs Ministry and Observer Research Foundation. This article contains salient points spoken by Mr Gadkari on Indian EV industry and we also give our take on the discussion.

Triton Electric is a US headquartered company, who wants to introduce Electric Cars in India and the Karnataka Government has assured to support them.

Elon Musk's Tesla is looking for a commercial property of around 20,000-30,000 square feet for their Tesla India office. They have also started assembling their Indian management team.

Gurgaon based Hero Electric plans to train mechanics to service electric vehicles. They also have started setting charging stations to help their customers.

The MX3 Electric Motorcycle costs Rs.95,000 and is the fourth electric two-wheeler from the Komaki to roll out in 2021 after TN95, SE and M5.

By Team PluginIndia
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Jaguar Land Rover India have launched their luxury electric SUV - the I-PACE in India. Here are details from the launch event.

The Easy Plus electric two-wheeler is priced at ₹41,999 and is powered by a 20Ah Lithium-Ion battery and will establish market presence in Tier-II and Tier-III markets.

Piaggio's recently launched FX range (fixed battery) of electric vehicles. These are passenger 3 wheelers and also cargo loaders. The Ape Electric FX range (cargo) is also eligible for FAME II subsidy. They also inaugurated a unique electric vehicle experience center in Jaipur.

IOCL (Indian Oil Corporation Limited) is going to finalize plans for a GigaWatt EV battery production plant for producing Aluminium-air batteries. IOCL plans to launch aluminium-air batteries for EVs in Andra Pradesh and Telangana. These batteries are a more cost effective alternative to lithium-ion batteries and are first-of-its-kind. Plant  is estimated to cost 600 crores each.

MG Motor and Tata Power have deployed the 50 kW Superfast public EV charging station in Chennai on Feb24.
The companies plan to install more 50kw and 60kW charging stations across the country.

The Ape’ Electrik FX range of electric vehicles are launched in the Cargo and Passenger segment. The new Ape’ E-Xtra FX is the most powerful electric cargo in the segment with 9.5 Kw power output. It comes with a proven full metal body architecture fitted with a useful 6 ft cargo deck length. It is also customizable for applications like the delivery van, garbage collector etc. 

MG Motors India has updated their MG ZS EV Electric car with higher range and better ground clearance and technology features. The price is revised to Rs 20.99 Lakhs for entry level variant.