mumbai in a bid to push emobility in the state the maharashtra government on sunday announced that it will buy or rent only electric vehicles for use by the government or urban local bodies from january 2022 itself rather than the earlier date of april 1 environment minister aaditya thackeray tweeted keeping our commitment to clean mobility and encouraging citizens the govt of maharashtra has decided to implement the decision to begin with mahatma phule renewable energy and infrastructure technology limited mahapreit will offer fleet management services from this month wherein it will supply electric vehicles on rent along with charging infra to the pimprichinchwad municipal corporation said its chairman and managing director bipin shrimali on sunday with a key focus on the shift to electric vehicles in government functioning we are also creating strong infrastructure for 2022 we have set a roadmap to install 134 ev charging stations across mumbai besides having 10 charging stations along the busy pune expressway and 70 more on the mumbainashiknagpur national highway nh53 shrimali said each charging station on nagpur highway will come up on one acre and will have facilities like food malls and parking the maharashtra government has also taken a decision to use funds projected to be received under the 15th finance commission on electrifying public transport under its ev policy 2021 the policy aims at bringing at least 146000 new batteryoperated electric vehicles bevs on state roads by 2025 estimated to comprise about 10 of all new vehicle registrations by that time