Tata Motors Bold Move : Tata Motors introduces the rollout of Tata. ev Mega Charger network for faster electric vehicle charging. To Set Up 500 EV Charging Station In Partnership With CPOs; Tata Power, Zeon, Charge Zone & Statiq Are Companies Of Interest Currently, the network is being built in partnership with some known CPOs like Tata Power, Zeon, Charge Zone and Statiq and within a year the company stated that it should have atleast 500 such outlets functional.
Each Mega Charger site will be able to offer 120kW of charging in one of either a four-gun single charger, or two 60kW two-gun chargers. Tata Motors claims the network is open to all EVs, regardless of brand but Tata EVs would priority access and a tariff up to 25 percent lower.
Mega Chargers will have restrooms and restaurants, and, at some locations, 24-hour human support, as well. Irrespective of the partner operator, customers can also call on a single toll-free number for 24×7 support. A single payment app, unified RFID based payment option and integration inside Tata Motors’ existing iRA are also lined up. ev app.
While the Tata. While IONEV Mega Chargers are, in fact, being set up and operated by external CPOs, Tata Motors’s chief strategy officer, Balaje Rajan, told Autocar India that the firm has “very clear service level agreements in place with each of the operators to ensure that the right kind of service level is provided.” For the time being, it has partnered with only four providers that fulfill all the criteria, for that purpose, he added.
Tata Motors Open Collaboration Initiative
In 2023, Tata Motors announced its ‘Open Collaboration’ framework and collaborated with CPOs and Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) to address such challenges and grow the charging infrastructure. Now, it has announced the ‘Open Collaboration 2.0’ programme which aims to more than double this number (to over 4,00,000) over the next two years; these would constitute 30,000 public chargers, whilst the rest would consist of home chargers and community charging outlets.
These Mega Chargers will be distributed mostly in cities, as well as major highways. “When potential EV buyers consider a charging network, they think there are too few public chargers,” the company’s managing director, Shailesh Chandra, told Autocar in response to a question about the city focus. This, he said, is also due to the fact that so many chargers today fall within homes and dealerships; Tata would also have its own take on the Mega Charger at each location, too. ev Mega Charger branding.A UPI-based future payment for community charging will also be enabled for any UPI app, while doorstep charging will also be enabled via a mobile charging van.
Beyond its Mega Changer network, Tata Motors will unveil a ‘Tata. ev Verified Charger’ designation for CPOs within its iRA app. The score will range from 1 to 5 and customers are expected to rate the charger on the basis of four counts- ambience or environment, accessibility, working condition and compatibility score with Tata EVs. Only locations with a 4-star and above rating would receive the ‘. ev verified’ mark. While the ‘. ecov verify’ mark will be crowd-sourced, he added, the company has already conducted a bank audit to find the ‘. ev verified’ locations while keeping the checklist open for third parties to check and validate these ratings.