[1/2] Electric Vehicle(EV) charging units are seen at a parking lot of Sobha city, a real estate property, in Gurugram, India, October 27, 2023.
REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis Acquire Licensing RightsNov 6 (Reuters) - More developers in India are putting electric vehicle chargers in parking slots of new developments, hoping to boost the value of the property and attract more buyers in a country where the charging infrastructure can't keep up with soaring EV sales.
While EVs accounted for just 2.4% of India's vehicle sales in the first half of this year, EV sales grew 137% to 48,000 units during the same period, research firm Canalys says.
The world's most populous nation is aiming to make EVs account for a third of total vehicle sales by 2030, but scarcity of public charging stations could derail these ambitions.
Sobha has gone a step further and launched two residential projects in Bengaluru with EV charging facilities in all available parking slots.
Persons:
Anushree, Canalys, Javed Shafiq Rao, Ravneet Phokela, Aby Jose Koilparambil, Dhanya Skariachan, Miyoung Kim
Organizations:
REUTERS, Alliance for Automotive Innovation, Prestige, EV, Mahindra Lifespace, Brigade, DLF, Ather Energy, Survey, Thomson
Locations:
Gurugram, India, United States, Bengaluru, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh