the growing demand for electric vehicles has ushered in several new models with automobile companies now focusing on electric variants for existing dieselpetrol suvs and sedansdaily registration of electric cars and twowheelers in mumbai has nearly doubled in a year from an average 12 ebikes and 6 ecars registered daily in 202122 to an average 22 ebikes and 11 ecars in 202223 as per the latest statistics procured by mumbai mirrorthe growing demand for electric vehicles has ushered in several new models with automobile companies now focusing on electric variants for existing dieselpetrol suvs and sedans advt more mumbaikars are opting for electric vehicles evs especially twowheelers for their noiseless rides and environmentfriendly features there is no more range anxiety as many ecars run 300500 km on a single charge which covers a trip to pune and back with more charging stations now opening on expressways highways and at malls petrol pumps and housing societies in mumbaiin the island city best has issued connections to over 200 residential users for private echarging private players such as adani electricity and tata power have decided to take the plunge to ramp up private charging points in housing societiessaid kaustubh gosavi consultant sustainable cities and transport wri india one of the biggest hindrances was getting charged in your own building they would say that i am keen on buying an electric vehicle ev but since i am not getting a charging facility in my building i will not buy it the state government and mumbai ev cell immediately stepped in what they did was that they worked with the maharashtra chief electrical inspector and registrar of housing societies to get nocs for charging points in residential premises expedited within seven days this was a game changerthis has helped in mushrooming of ev charging points across societies in island city and suburbs also it has encouraged flat owners to apply for a charging point in the parking lot and book an electric car he said advt secondly tariff for charging was initially at residential rate but now the power utility firm enables you to get a separate meter for evs and this is at a subsidised tariff which is uniform across all power firms gosavi pointed out adding the market is now at a place where it is driving itself every time an electric vehicle owner stops at a signal you will always see the diesel or petrol car owner next to you asking kitna average de rahi hai how low is the maintenance cost from the government initially pushing the agenda the market is slowly catching up by itselfurban designer and architect trupti amritwar who owns an electric suv however feels there is still range anxiety if distances are long you need to have more charging points for speedy charging at every petrol station on highways she saidshe recalled that she had been driving an electric hatchback car for seven years before switching to a suv last year it gives