Maharashtra Environment Minister Aaditya Thackeray on 17 August 2021 inaugurated an electric vehicle charging station, set up by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), at a public parking lot in Dadar area of Mumbai.
The station, where seven EVs can be charged at a time, is the first-of-its-kind facility to come up at a public parking lot in the state. The civic body will set up more charging facilities for EVs at various parking lots under its jurisdiction.
Parking and charging facilities have been made available at the newly set up station which will be open for people round-the-clock. Seven chargers are available at the station and four of them are fast ones which can fully charge an EV in one to 1.5 hours.
Three slow chargers can charge a vehicle in six hours, Rs 15 per unit will be collected for charging vehicles.