Big news for the residents of “The City Beautiful,” all paid parking lots in UT would have charging stations for the electric vehicles (EV).
The Chandigarh Renewable Energy and Science and Technology Promotion Association (CREST) has written a letter to the civic body and has urged to identify the locations for slow as well as fast-charging stations. According to the UT administration, parking lots with 600 square metre area is required for fast charging stations and lots with 1000 square meter area is required for slow charging stations.
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The administration of UT has told that it has received a request from two who had got the charging stations allocated from the department.
An associated source was quoted saying, “Since the UT has asked to provide space for the charging station, the company will tell us the exact locations and we will provide the space accordingly. The area utilised by the installation of the charging station will be required to be deducted from the paid parking contractor agreement by reduction of the licence fee as per the proportion of their bids. Moreover, it may be considered that these charging stations can be provided on pavement area adjoining parking”.
The parking space would be still available for non-electric vehicles which do not require the charging station, to be implanted at the parking lots.