Tata Power Teams Up with Zoomcar For EV Adoption By CIOTechOutlook Team

Tata Power Teams Up with Zoomcar For EV Adoption

CIOTechOutlook Team | Thursday, 24 August 2023, 11:42 IST

Tata Power EV Charging Solutions announced a partnership with car-sharing service Zoomcar to encourage the use of electric vehicles. The partnership intends to promote Tata Power's EZ Charge stations on the Zoomcar platform and will help current and future EV owners in addition to Zoomcar's current clients. Tata wants to build 25,000 charging stations over the course of the next five years, strengthening the national EV ecosystem and promoting the expansion of sustainable transportation.

Over 20,000 cars from Zoomcar are available on its platform in India, Indonesia, and Egypt.

"As India's leading EV charging infrastructure provider, we are constantly collaborating with industry partners such as Zoomcar to develop a technologically advanced and robust EV ecosystem in the country," Tata Power CEO & MD Praveer Sinha.

Greg Moran, CEO and co-founder of Zoomcar, stated that the alliance is ready to build a complete ecosystem that satisfies the changing needs of EV aficionados.

"Our car-sharing platform is perfectly suited for electric vehicles and we expect to grow 50 per cent of our platform by 2025," he added.

In support of the nation's energy independence, Tata Power, which was formerly one of the three companies collectively known as Tata Electric Companies, is a pioneer in the adoption of new technology. To its credit are numerous firsts. Together with its subsidiaries and joint entities, Tata Power has a generation capacity of 14, 294 MW, of which 38% comes from clean energy sources. The business holds the distinction of ranking among the leading private companies in each value chain sector, including rooftop solar and value-added services.