Exicom, India’s leading power solutions player with presence in telecom, mobility and stationary energy segment, has announced that it has completed 5,000 charging installations including AC and DC chargers, across 200 cities. The milestone of 5000th charger was achieved by installing a 200KW charger for Tata Power at a DTC depot in Delhi. The feat has been achieved in just four years since its first installation after winning India’s first EV charging tender by EESL among more than 10 players in Q2 2018 at Delhi.
Deployed at convenient and strategic locations, the 5,000 installations are spread across 200 cities in 20 states with a majority of installations at bus depots, fleet operators, public charging stations, residential communities and households. These EV chargers comprise approximately 3600 AC Chargers and 1400 DC chargers.
With over 20 years of experience in designing, engineering and manufacturing technology products, the company is an EV charging ecosystem enabler with smart solutions around product, & software spanning across home, enterprise and public charging segments. Its chargers are being used to charge all types of 4W EVs and commercial vehicles (EV buses) in India, manufactured by Indian and Global OEMs such as MG Motors, JBM, Tata Motors, Audi, amongst others.
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Commenting on the achievement, Mr. Anant Nahata, MD & CEO, Exicom Group said “We are immensely proud to achieve the first of our many milestones in such a short span of time. Deployment of 5000 EV chargers across the country, is just a stepping stone towards achieving the bigger vision of supporting charging network for EVs in India with products that are future proof, reliable and are industry leading in terms of performance. We are committed to invest in R&D to support innovation and maintain our technology leadership and provide charging options to all types of drivers including those in low income communities.”
Exicom currently manufactures its chargers at its state-of-the-art facility in Gurgaon, Haryana, and plans to set up a new greenfield manufacturing facility in 2022-23 to multiply its manufacturing capacity by 3X in order to serve the fast growing Indian market and export opportunities as well. Exicom has already begun supplying EV chargers in South East Asia. It provided DC fast Charging Equipment for Malaysia’s first multi-fuel filling station in Sarawak region providing gasoline, hydrogen and electricity refueling options. The company expects to ship more than 20,000 EV chargers to its customers in FY23.
For February 2022, the country saw electric passenger vehicles sales grow 296 per cent to 2,352 units, according to the Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA) report. Apart from the high petrol prices, EV sales have also been affected due to increasing government sops, growing awareness in urban locations over the past few months. To support the growing population of EVs, the Government too is taking all necessary steps to step up the supporting infrastructure. Between October 2021 and January 2022, the nine mega-cities – those with a population of more than 4 million – Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune and Surat, got 940 public EV chargers installed out of the country’s 1,640 total.
