Infrastructure, major cause of worry for domestic electric car market

Indian infrastructure is the major point of concerns for the Electric car (EV) manufacturers at the stage when the more and more car manufacturers are joining the high tech, zero emission cars hub. The major point of concerns for the electric cars manufacturers is lack of good roads, parking lots , electricity and availability of charger stations.

 
 
Sandeep Singh, Deputy Managing Director of Marketing, Toyota Kirloskar Motors stated that stated that untill and unless our infrastructure is added with good roads, electricity and parking slots, they cannot hope that demand for electric cars will ever increase in the domestic market.
 
He added that Builders and Government authorities should make proper arrangements charger stations at the time of constructing apartments. Moreover, the electric cars are to be priced competetive to attract the buyers.
 
Rajeev Kapoor, Fiat India President and Chief Executive Officer also agrees with the fact and stated that at present they are looking for better infrastructure facilities. He commented that present more investments are needed to be made on infrastructure prior to the launch of Electric Vehicles or electric cars in the domestic market.
 
Mr. Kapoor added that government needs to focus on constructing proper infrastructure, he said that they appreciate passion from EV fanatics to ride electric cars but for that proper facilities and infrastructures are needed to be arranged and well constructed.
 
US automajor, General Motors also have the same perceptions regarding the lack of proper infrastructure facilities. P. Balendran ,Vice-President, General Motors India stated they are all set to bring in their electric cars but are just waiting for proper infrastructure to be enhanced.
 
Not only General Motors, but also Mahindra Reva has the same thoughts. They have recently launched Mahindra Reva-i which is priced at Rs. 3.10 lakhs (ex-showroom Pune) and are aiming to set up a new plant in Bangalore by June next year. The plant will have capacity to manufacture 30,000 units annually. The company also has plans to mount up the sales to 3,600 units by next 12-18 months which majorly depends on the infrastructure factor. Mahindra Reva has come up with the major step to resolve this problem and the company is also setting up local charging points in different cities.