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APOLLO CV ZONE INSTALLS TATA POWER EV CHARGING PORT
The opening of the EV charging port at Apollo CV Zone in Navi Mumbai
positive, as once the EV sales pick up steam, more vehicles will come in and accordingly more charging ports can be installed. The CV center also offers car tyres along with a truck tyre range.
Th Apollo CV Center is installed with a Tata Power EZ charger and networked on the Tata Power Mobile App also. Tata Power infrastructure solutions are deployed in 40 cities including Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Kolkata, Vishakhapatnam.
The charging port offers a fast-charging service, for example if a car is left with 10% charge, it can be charged in less than hour.
The Apollo CV centre along with the neighbouring retread site functions 24x7, offering a range of services under a single roof and is installed with ultra3-D aligner for wheel alignment, wheel balancing, tyre repair, retreading, nitrogen filling etc. Retreading is carried out at the adjoining Tyregrip retread site.
The truck center also offers Apollo brand tyres and tubes, lubricant oil, industrial oil, bearings, V-belts, and alloy wheels.
India is fast emerging as a key electric vehicle market, and in the current highly competitive market conditions retreaders are increasingly looking for new ideas to offer the widest range of services under single roof. In a one- of-its-kind initiative, a commercial hub installed an EV charging port at its premises.
country, we thought it is a good idea to have one charging port installed at our truck center that spreads over 10,000 sq ft, opened in the middle of last year and locates right in the midst of trucking hub with retreading site situated few meters away,” said Raj Sarvaiya, who owns a new truck centre in Navi Mumbai that now operates as Ashuraj Apollo CV Zone. Sarvaiya is also a partner in the retreading venture Tyregrip, which is regarded as a key retread site in the region.
Total EV sales in India touched a record of close to 1.2 million units in the 2023 financial year, which is equal to combined EV volumes in the last nine years as per data published on the Vahan
Dashboard, the Government portal that tracks vehicle registrations.
“Installing EV charging ports in the Apollo CV Zone is part of our value- added strategy, and also part of our efforts to provide a 360-degree solution to the transport sector,” added Sarvaiya. According to him, about 5-6 cars drive in for charging each day, which is quite
The adjoining Tyregrip retreading facility
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