The National Highways for Electric Vehicles (NHEV) organized “NHEV Working Group, Board Members Meeting” to discuss issues related to ease of doing business & battery safety & swapping in EVs in India. After a series of discussions and exchange of ideas, the Working Group came up with 12 recommendations. Out of these 12 recommendations there are 4 each of Administrative, Regulatory and Technical recommendations.
Elaborating further on the developments Mr. Abhijeet Sinha, National Project Director NHEV said, “I am glad to see the NHEVs will do tech trail on Delhi Jaipur Expressway on 9th September 22. We are committed to bring Ease of Doing Business in the E-mobility sector with on ground pilots to inculcate ground realities for policies. Today NHEV Working Group decided to place these 12 recommendations before the policy think tank and govt along with 4 new short-term pilots announced. Charge Point Operator’s Society (CPOS of India) today passed the proposal in Its Board Meeting to make central Delhi district a model district to address 4 bottlenecks which shall further be made available to all CPOs of India “
These recommendations are Real time identification of batteries and their current ownership details with Unique Identification (UID), transparency in information exchange to the customers regarding the EV batteries, components and third-party damage coverage, user discretion regarding sharing their location & privacy, and ascertaining the financial stability of battery OEM to ensure the after sales service and assistance during the battering life. Technical recommendations include the provision of black-box like feature to monitor the battery systems and identifying the issues that lead to battery failure, mandatory digital connectivity of the battery through e-sim or other means, monitoring the battery performance & battery recall in case of fault identification, and high accelerated lifetime testing (HALT) for critical battery performance and operating parameters. Four recommendations regarding regulatory aspects were also made. These are identification of battery failure issues, volatile thermal behavior and associated risks with an identification device to understand the root cause of failure, real-time verifiable exchange value for battery swapping, net metering of charging stations from DISCOMs, and financing (by bank and NBFCs) of only those batteries that meet government standardization.
During the event, another meeting was held by the Charge Point operator’s (CPO) society. After the meeting it was announced that 4000-5000 EV chargers will be installed at 2000 locations in the central Delhi district. The idea is to develop the central Delhi district as India’s model district for Ease of Doing Business by making E-Mobility infrastructure easily accessible thus facilitating smooth business. The CPO society had recommended this to remove the bottlenecks in the E-Mobility sector. The charging points will be installed by Joulepoint at locations like apartment buildings, malls, RWAs and hotels.
