BOLT as announced the installation of 10,000 Bolt EV charging stations in India in 6 months. The company has also announced to deploy 1 lakh charging ports in the next 6 months by catering to demand coming from non-metro cities such as Jaipur, Nagpur, Nashik, Chandigarh, Surat, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Bhubaneswar, Vijayawada, etc.
The top three cities that have seen the maximum usable of EV charging station are Bengaluru, Delhi/NCR and Hyderabad. Of the total of 4273 publicly available BOLT EV charging points in India, Bengaluru has the highest number installed in the country with 1754 chargers followed by Delhi/NCR region at 663 and 347 in Hyderabad. BOLT has added more than 15,000 active users on the charging network up to February 2022. The network has successfully powered 344 electric vehicles across India.
The company claims that an average of 1.57 hours are spent for charging an EV per every BOLT charging points. BOLT has also claimed to have generate a passive income of INR 64,000 across India. In the last 6 months, more than 20 OEMs/EV ecosystem players such as SpareIt, Park+ and EV fleet solution providers have partnered with BOLT across India.
BOLT charging network is India’s first dedicated network of IoT-enabled EV charging points connecting riders across the country. Made-in-India, BOLT is a universal charging point which is compatible with any portable charger that comes with EVs and works with the existing AC power supply everywhere.
Anyone can buy and install BOLT in their shops, garages, RWAs, commercial parking spaces etc. for riders and use it to generate passive income. Installing BOLT requires no additional infrastructure and can be done in under 30 min with little to no maintenance. The charging units come with an energy calculator to monitor the power consumption and gives the buyer access to a lifetime of passive income. BOLT owners can choose to switch the device status between ‘Public’ and ‘Private’, where ‘Public’ charging points are open to the public and are available for booking on the BOLT app. The charging points marked as ‘Private’ are exclusively for the use of device owners. Thousands of BOLT charging points have already been installed across 60 different cities in India with an installed capacity of over 33,000kW.
