the corporation will also promote the use of eautos in the citykochi at a time when rising pollution levels in kochi are causing concerns city authorities have started taking measures to step up the push for electric vehicles ev while corporation authorities have decided to ensure that the local body would purchase and own only evs in the future kochi metro rail limited kmrl is planning to procure evs for conducting feeder services for the metro we will be preparing an emobility plan for the city as part of it we will take measures to encourage evs in the city mayor m anil kumar said advt a pilot project for using evs for goods movement under the ecologistic project mooted by iclei formerly international council for local environmental initiatives will be implemented this year itself as a preliminary step 10 electric goods autorickshaws will be procured to facilitate the movement of goods in ernakulam market anil kumar saidthe corporation will also promote the use of eautos in the city grants given by international agencies for reducing carbon emission will be allotted to a society formed by autorickshaw owners kochi corporation and giz a german funding agency have signed an agreement for providing grants for those operating eautos in the city the fund will be used for giving subsidies to ernakulam district autorickshaw drivers cooperative society for buying eautorickshaws the amount will also be used for setting up charging stations for eautos signages auto stands and other infrastructure facilities for the project kmrl is also planning to procure evehicles for feeder services of the metro four electric buses are plying on aluvanedumbassery aluvaparavoor and aluvaangamaly routes maha voyage group has been given the licence for running the feeder buses along these routes the buses are being operated by klein smart buses limited ksbl a consortium of bus owners an official with kmrl said six more ebuses will be added to the fleet soon the official saidwe have decided to ply only evehicles as feeder services of the metro this is part of our policy to promote green facilities we have invited tenders for procuring 10 hydrogen buses for conducting feeder services moreover tender procedures have been started for procuring 200 eautos for conducting feeder services connecting metro stations and various destinations the official added advt the kochi water metro will also deploy only electric boats as per plans 78 boats would ply along the different routes connecting various islands around kochi and the mainland only electric vehicles or other green vehicles would be deployed as feeder services connecting the water metro terminals and various destinations as well the officials informedalso read boom time for evehicles registrations in maharashtra rise 400 in 1 yearaccording to the data 23796 evs were registered in the state between april and december 2021 and then between january and march 2022 it almost doubled to take the number to 46108 this is 390 higher than the previous financial year when 9415 evs were registered across maharashtra as