EVRE, a leading electric vehicle charging infrastructure player, has announced its association with Mad About Wheels (MAW), India's first brand agnostic electric mobility and automotive solutions and retail services provider. The two brands have joined hands to use the phygital platform of Mad About Wheels to enable EV dealerships across more than 100 cities with over 500 electric vehicle chargers. The first 100 EV chargers in 30 cities are expected to come up by March 2022. EVRE, in association with MAW will set up public EV charging infrastructure at these 100+ locations, mainly in Tier II and Tier III cities.
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EVRE will conceptualise, design, establish, develop and maintain the charging stations
MAW will enable the deployment of the EV charging points at the brand's e-retail partners, in association with EVRE, offering them value-added services with no cost of asset ownership to them. EVRE will manufacture, establish, own and operate this EV charging infrastructure. The tariffs for charging EVs will be in accordance with the electricity tariff in respective locations, and enabled through the EVRE App available on all app stores.
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Announcing this partnership, Amresh Khar, Co-Founder of Mad About Wheels said, "At Mad About Wheels, our focus is to provide consumer-centric infrastructure to enable our dealer-partners by providing enhanced experience for our existing and potential EV customers, brands in association, new partnership in discussion. Dealers get the charging point exclusive and free of investment in these assets. Partnership with EVRE helps us in completing the loop of providing 360-degree services, and to our customers by providing charging touch-points at convenient last-mile locations as well as drive profitability for our dealer-partners at the same time. All these quality chargers are 2W & 3W smart-enabled".
Commenting on this unique partnership, Krishna K Jasti, CEO & Co-Founder of EVRE said, "We at EVRE strive to increase the touchpoints for EVs with our best-in-class EV charging infrastructure and continue to increase our footprint across the nation. MAW provides us one such platform that enables us to reach out to the length of breadth of the country, touching a majority of the districts in our country within a year. This added infrastructure to their existing set-up will help the dealers with incremental revenue for utilising the chargers as public infrastructure, as well as utilising the parking spaces for charging hubs. We are a firm believer that tier-II & III cities in India will play an important role in pushing the clean mobility drive and we are fully geared-up to satiate that demand across the country with our hub model".
Public charging infrastructure will play a decisive role in the growth of the electric two-wheeler and three-wheeler segments in rural and semi-urban areas. With the first EV-ready 100+ strong dealer network, MAW and EVRE aim to start building the electric vehicle ecosystem across the country.
