BPCL Electrifies More than 5,000 Kilometers Highway Stretches in Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to Promote Electric Vehicles Growth
25 Mar 2023 | Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL)
Kochi, Kerala, India(NewsVoir)
• 30 KW fast charging stations installed at 110 Fuel Stations, creating 19 EV Fast Charging Corridors on 15 major highways in Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
• These corridors will connect important religious and tourists destinations with cities
• Highway Corridors creates to remove range anxiety of the electric vehicles owners, driving long distance
• Fuel Stations offers safe & secure stoppage points for EV charging, offering clean toilets and restaurants, which are ideal for driving break
• BPCL will convert 200 National Highways across India, by March 31st 2023, into electric corridors
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), a ‘Maharatna’ and a Fortune Global 500 Company, today announced the launch of 19 EV Fast-Charging Corridors at 110 fuel stations along 15 highways in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The company has launched 3 corridors with 19 fuel stations in Kerala, 6 Corridors with 33 fuel stations in Karnataka and 10 corridors with 58 fuel stations in Tamil Nadu.
The 19 Highway Corridors are:
Sr.no
Highway Corridor
Distance (Kilometers)
1
Bangalore -Mysore – Bandipur
230 Kms
2
Davanagere-Haveri-Belgaum
248 Kms
3
Bellari-Koppal-Gadag-Hubbali-Karwar
385 Kms
4
Bangalore-Davanagere
264 Kms
5
Bangalore-Bagepalli-Anantpur
224 Kms
6
Bangalore – Tirupathi
247 Kms
7
Chennai Pondichery – Velankanni
310 Kms
8
Coimbatore – Karur
149 Kms
9
Trichy - Thanjavur – Nagapattinam
145 Kms
10
Hosur - Salem-Karur-Madurai -Tirunelveli- Kanyakumari
641 Kms
11
Madurai-Rajapalayam-Shencottah
163 Kms
12
Madurai-Rameshwaram
196 Kms
13
Salem – Ulundurrpet
139 Kms
14
Theni-Madurai-Thondi
186 Kms
15
Tuticorin-Madurai
167 Kms
16
Coimbatore – Salem
167 Kms
17
Ernakulam-Kozhikode - Kannur-Kasargod
362 Kms
18
Kozhikode – Waynad
86 Kms
19
Ernakulam-Trissur-Palakkad
150 Kms
"It takes just 30 minutes to charge an EV, giving the driving range of upto 125 kilometers at our Fuel Stations, therefore we have maintained the distance within 100 kilometers between the two charging stations,” said Pushp Kumar Nayar, Head Retail South at the launch. These corridors will connect important religious and tourists destinations with cities, like Tirupathi in Andhra Pradesh &Bandipur National Park in Karnataka; Ranaganthaswamy Temple, Jambukeswar Temple, famous religious places covered in Kerala are Guruvayoor temple and Kadampuzhatemple ,Vallarpadam National shrine of Basilica, St.Antony's Church, Koratty and Markaz Knowledge City & Early Sunrise watch at Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu and Meenakshi Amman Temple in Madurai, and many more...