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Jio-Bp Partners With Zomato To Make 100% EV Fleet By 2030.

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Jio-Bp, Reliance Industries’ and London-based BP’s fuel and mobility joint venture, established a partnership with Zomato on Wednesday to deliver electric vehicle (EV) mobility services to the food aggregator in support of its aspirations to have a 100 percent EV fleet by 2030. The new statement comes just days after Jio-Bp revealed plans to establish EV charging and battery-swapping facilities in 12 locations throughout North India. The company will establish its shop on the assets of real estate developer Omaxe. They announced an agreement to support the food delivery company in its ‘The Climate Group’s EV100’ effort.

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Jio-bp will provide EV mobility services to Zomato, as well as access to ‘Jio-bp pulse’ branded battery switching stations for last-mile deliveries, according to a company release.

“The collaboration is poised to accelerate EV adoption in the rapidly growing Indian delivery and transportation segment,” it added.

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Zomato last year joined the non-profit The Climate’s worldwide electric mobility program EV100, with the goal of having 100% EVs in their fleet by 2030. EVs are already available on the Gurugram-based company’s platform in cities such as India Delhi, Bengaluru, and Mumbai.

“The current EV fleet is a small fraction of the active fleet of delivery partners, and we understand that getting to 100 percent adoption of EVs will not be easy, but is essential in the long run,” Zomato Founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal said in June last year when the company announced its EV-focused plans.

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The lack of charging infrastructure and restricted battery range are two major obstacles for Zomato in expanding its EV fleet. This could be rectified as a result of the most recent collaboration. Jio-Bp’s Pulse brand provides consumers with EV charging infrastructure.

Earlier this month, the Indian affiliate of British automaker MG Motor joined together with oil manufacturer Castrol to explore mobility options for EVs in the nation with Jio-Bp. TVS Motor and Mahindra Group are also significant automobile businesses in the joint venture, which will develop solutions for a variety of consumer and commercial EVs. In addition to Jio-Bp, Zomato has local vendors in select locations such as Zypp, Eveez, and Bud-e to facilitate its continuous transition to an EV fleet.

Reliance BP Mobility, which runs under the Jio-Bp brand, collaborated with Zomato’s archival Swiggy last year to create an ecosystem for EV battery-swapping stations across the country. Reliance BP Mobility Limited (RBML) is an Indian fuels and mobility joint venture between Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and bp that operates under the brand ‘Jio-bp.’ The JV established one of the country’s largest EV charging stations in Delhi in January 2022, as the partners expand their fuel retail network, including several fuel options as well as EV charging infrastructure. The collaboration also aims to assist in the development of greener and more cost-effective delivery fleet options.

Jio-bp built and launched two of India’s largest EV charging stations last year. The Jio-bp pulse brand represents the JV’s electric mobility company, which provides charging infrastructure to Indian consumers. Customers can use the Jio-bp pulse mobile app to identify nearby charging stations and charge their EVs seamlessly.

Jio-bp also announced as part of the arrangement that it will set up EV charging and switching infrastructure at various Omaxe properties across 12 cities. Delhi, Noida, Greater Noida, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, New Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Patiala, Amritsar, Jaipur, Sonipat, and Bahadurgarh are among them. It will do so incrementally.

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ChargePoint is a boon in the industry of electric vehicle infrastructure

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ChargePoint is one of the biggest companies around the world that operates an EV charging network in 14 countries. The growth of electric vehicle has been increasing every day and thus the demand for EV charging stations are also increasing. These charging stations are becoming as common as petrol pumps and will expand to other countries very soon.

Richard Lowenthal is the founder of the company and currently, Pasquale Romano, CEO of ChargePoint is the most important person in the company. His visions for the company are big and he thinks he doesn’t need to wait for the world to understand the charging network. So, the technology on which the EV charging networks run is built by the company itself.

About Richard Lowenthal

Richard acquired his bachelor’s degree from the University of California Berkeley. He was the CEO of ChargePoint from 2007 (the founding year) to 2011. Currently, he is the CTO of the company. Apart from ChargePoint, Richard is also the co-founder of Lighter Networks.

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History of ChargePoint

Initially, when the company was founded, people didn’t have much idea about electric vehicles and how it can take over the world within the next few years. Founded in 2007, ChargePoint witnessed massive growth in profit within 10 years. By 2017, ChargePoint owned more than 35,000 EV stations in many countries. The company’s headquarters are based in Campbell, California. But, apart from that, the company has big markets in Mexico, Canada, Australia, and the United States.

The growth escalated highly in the past three years and in 2017 the company was planning for a listing. But, no one from the company mentioned a specific timeline. At the end of 2018, the company raised around $240 million, and the number of stations summed up to 57,000. At the end of 2021, the annual growth of the company is predicted to be around 55%.

Pasquale Romano- The man taking ChargePoint to newer levels

In 2011, Pasquale Romano became the CEO and the President of ChargePoint. Since then he has opened many new ideas and paths for the company to increase the revenue and expansion in foreign lands. He is highly inspired by Tesla and said Tesla didn’t wait for the rest of the world to catch up and thus designed Tesla’s Supercharger Network. Similarly, he won’t stop making significant changes and build out the biggest charging network only because the world isn’t fast enough to catch up with it.

Pasquale has a very rich experience in the business world. Before becoming the CEO of ChargePoint, he was the board member of many companies like CALSTART, AgilOne, Proterra Inc, and also the owner of Centonove and a few other companies. He went to Harvard and later to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his maters.

The world is changing and irrespective of the pace people are buying electric vehicles and by 2025 the demand will be at its peak. Pasquale also said that he is not looking into the business from a single man’s perspective. He has laid put strategic plans for the company for both private vehicles and public transport as well. So, even in the next few years if the number of personal vehicles drops due to excess pollution level or oil demand, the company can benefit from the public transport sector.

Pasquale’s main vision is to make the lives of common people easier by bringing down the cost for vehicles and EV is the best way in this era to do it. He is a very optimistic person who mainly focuses on the driver’s perspective, his customers, and customers of EV in general. Thus, he dedicates all his work to make this technology easily viable and affordable.

ChargePoint and its growth in Europe

In 2018, the company planned to expand its business as the market for EV in Europe is increasing more rapidly. The firm of ChargePoint is now owned by Daimler and BMW and it started selling charging points in Europe in 2018. Quickly, electric cars will be outnumbering diesel cars as in many parts of Europe diesel cars have been banned. This is one of the reasons why ChargePoint thinks the market of Europe has a big potential for EV. The company has raised $125 million for expansion in the European market and soon it will compete with Engie and Innogy.

Porsche’s Best Seller ‘Macan Compact SUV’ to Go All Electric

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The luxury vehicle producers, Porsche, announced on Tuesday that it is going to transform it’s best selling Macan SUV, into all electric. The company has recently started working on its first electric vehicles, the Taycan and Cross Tourismo, and the electric Macan SUV will be another addition to its electric vehicle lineup.

The company has revealed that the production of the electric Macan SUV will start anytime at the start of the coming decade, and the company is already set to launch its Taycan sedan by the end of this year, and the launch of the Taycan Cross Turismo will follow shortly afterwards, which is also the final production version of the Mission E concept of the company.

Like Porsche’s electric vehicle Taycan, the Macan compact SUV will also feature 800-volt architecture and will be capable of taking charge up to 350 kW. The company has not given any statement on the total distance it would be able to cover when fully charged, but we can get a good idea of its mile range from the Taycan model, which will have a range of 250 miles, after charging in fewer than 20 minutes.

The company has said that the Macan compact will be based on the PPE architecture, and for that Porsche has collaborated with the Audi AG. The company plans to turn most of its vehicles into electric or hybrid models, like its contemporary Tesla, and according to the company, 50 per cent of all new Porsche vehicles may have an electric drive system, by the year 2025.

“Our aim is to take a pioneering role in technology, and for this reason, we will continue to consistently align the company with the mobility of the future,” Porsche CEO Oliver Blume said in a statement.

Porsche is known for its luxury and sports vehicles, and Macan compact crossover is the best-selling vehicle of the company, having been sold 23,500 Macan SUVs in 2018, in the U.S. only. Porsche has plans to invest over $6.9 billion on EVs manufacturing through 2022. The company will manufacture all its electric vehicles at the company’s existing plant in Leipzig, Germany.

Volkswagen Unveils MEB Platform Electric Vehicles at the AAI Event 2018

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Volkswagen has got into the electric vehicles production to promote the ‘Electric for all’ motto, with its MEB (Modular Electric Drive Kit) platform launch this week. Volkswagen unveiled its series of the all-electric commercial vehicle at the 67th IAA Commercial Vehicles show, in Hannover. The main attraction of this launch was the new I.D. BUZZ CARGO.

The I.D. BUZZ is the joint venture of the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles and Volkswagen Passenger Cars. The two-toned cargo micro bus gives a retro feel as it is the look-alike of the micro-buses of 60’s. The I.D. BUZZ is manufactured on the Volkswagon’s MEB platform, that is designed to support a variety of battery sizes, according to the purpose and the budget of the vehicle. The different battery size support makes the micro bus run for 330 to 500 km, in one go, when the battery is fully charged.

The I.D. BUZZ is capable of carrying a payload of 800 kg. The vehicle is almost 5 meters long, 2 meters wide and 2 meters high. The windows from the back of the driver seat have been dropped this time and the vehicle is having a solar roof and wide-opening doors, at its back. There is only three seats in the I.D. BUZZ, the one for the driver, and two for the passengers. The passenger seats can be folded to make more space for the cargo. It has shelves inside the backspace of the vehicle and the driver’s door, as well as the sliding door, opens electrically.

Many manufacturers are venturing into production of electric vehicles, and Volkswagen had also launched its first all-electric, a panel van, e-Crafter, back in August. At the AAI 2018, Volkswagen also added other vehicles to the electric vehicle family, including the ABT e-Transporter, ABT e-Caddy and Cargo e-bike. Volkswagen has designed the ABT e-Transporter and the ABT e-Cabby, jointly with Abt e-Line GmbH and will arrive in the middle of 2019. The vehicles are focussed on zero-emission and the I.D. Buzz can take some time to reach the markets, most probably by 2022.