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The Andhra Pradesh government will buy 25,000 electric two-wheelers for its employees.
Convergence Energy Services Limited (CESL), a newly established subsidiary of Energy Efficiency Services Limited, itself a joint venture of public sector companies under the Ministry of Power, has signed an agreement with the New and Renewable Energy Development Corporation of Andhra Pradesh (NREDCAP) to provide the vehicles.
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Green drive
Mahua Acharya, MD and CEO, CESL, said, “Andhra Pradesh’s decision to go electric will accelerate e-mobility adoption in the country, hopefully providing a blueprint for other States to adopt. We look forward to achieving scale, consolidation and standardisation across the ecosystem.”
Under the agreement, CESL and NREDCAP will work to aggregate demand, deploy electric vehicles, and build charging infrastructure.
Srikant Nagulapalli, Chairman, NREDCAP, said: “Providing 25,000 electric two-wheelers to government employees will be game-changing for e-mobility in the State. Apart from mitigating climate change, electric mobility is going to be a key economic growth driver and we are focussed to build the e-mobility ecosystem in the State. We will encourage all government employees including cooperative societies, public sector undertakings, village, ward secretariat staff and others to opt for EVs. A large government EV fleet will encourage greater uptake among masses.”
AP’s Energy Minister, Balineni Srinivasa Reddy, said: “Our vision, with the procurement of 25,000 vehicles, is to make Andhra Pradesh go electric. We have been effectively providing affordable and clean power, and a fillip to e-mobility will make a further push towards clean energy adoption. Electric two-wheelers for government employees will boost energy and financial savings, and we hope more people will also make a shift to EVs.”
Monthly lease
The electric two-wheelers will be provided on a monthly lease, inclusive of a comprehensive insurance, which will be deducted as EMI from the employee’s account. The vehicle will come with a three-year standard warranty against manufacturing defect. Batteries will carry a warranty up to three years or 60,000 km, whichever is earlier.
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