Jio-bp, BluSmart to kick off EV charging in NCR

New Delhi: Jio-bp, Reliance Industries Ltd’s fuel retail and new-age mobility solutions joint venture with British energy major bp, has teamed up with BluSmart, an all-electric ride-hailing startup, to set up a network of commercial scale charging stations for electric vehicles (EVs) in the country.

NCR, BluSmart’s largest market, will be the first to get the network, with Jio-bp setting up EV charging stations capable of accommodating 30 EVs, a company statement said in a statement on Thursday without giving the number of stations planned or a timeline for their rollout.

The network will be gradually expanded to other cities, with focus on urban areas where EVs are more common. The stations will serve passenger EVs and fleets. This will be in line with BluSmart’s plan to expand its network into other major cities across India.

The partnership is yet another step taken by the Reliance group’s bid to fast-track an EV ecosystem and create a market for new-age mobility products such as energy storage batteries it proposes to make under a $10 billion green energy play.

Last month, Reliance-bp Mobility entered into a pact with the country’s largest food aggregator Swiggy for adoption of EVs, including electric two-wheelers, for deliveries. Jio-bp is taking the partnership route with leading OEMs (original equipment makers), technology, and platform players to emerge as an integrated EV infrastructure player, with a format-specific approach for all vehicle categories.

BluSmart has been disrupting the mobility landscape through its all-electric fleet, providing reliable, zero-surge and zero-tailpipe emission ride-hailing service in the NCR. “Leveraging bp’s learnings from the UK with bp Pulse, where they have the country’s largest EV charging network, and from Germany through their Aral brand, Jio-bp intends to bring in the latest in EV technology to our consumers,” the statement quoted company CEO Harish C. Mehta as saying.

“EV superhubs are the future of EV charging as it provides seamless charging access to consumers and ride-hailing fleets and we will be jointly building some of the largest EV Superhubs in the world,” the statement quoted BluSmart co-founder Anmol Jaggi as saying.


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