“The energy transition is the defining build-out of this generation, and the scale India is heading towards will need more of everyone. We are glad to be building it alongside the rest of the industry rather than apart from it.” Virendra Goyal, Head – EV Charging, Tata Power
World EV Day this year finds Indian mobility at a genuinely different place. EV penetration crossed 12% in August — roughly one in eight vehicles sold now runs on a battery, against under 10% a year ago. That is a shift no single part of the ecosystem could have delivered alone, and one that leaves all of us with a shared responsibility to match the pace.
As adoption widens beyond metros and beyond early adopters, the experience has to hold up for a first-time buyer in a tier-two city as reliably as it does in Mumbai or Delhi. Our conviction is a simple one — clean energy has to be affordable, accessible and dependable. That is what turns an intention into an everyday choice.
At Tata Power, that is where we are putting our effort: expanding across highways, residential societies, workplaces and city hubs, while weighting uptime and renewable integration as heavily as network reach. With 7,000+ public charging points, 2.5 lakh+ home chargers and 1,200+ e-bus charging points, and with digital tools that let a driver locate, charge and pay without a second thought, our endeavour is to make the charging experience seamless, so consumers can realize the economic benefits of going electric.
The energy transition is the defining build-out of this generation, and the scale India is heading towards will need more of everyone. We are glad to be building it alongside the rest of the industry rather than apart from it. And the measure of success for a day like this is its own redundancy — the point at which electric is simply how India drives, and no occasion is needed to make the case.
The author is Virendra Goyal, Head – EV Charging, Tata Power
