Pune: In continuance with the preliminary sanction of Pune Municipal Corporation’s City Improvement Committee and the opinion given by the road department, the PMC Standing Committee today gave a go ahead to the e-bike renting project along with setting up of 2000 EV Charging points at 500 various locations across Pune city.
Standing Committee Chairman Hemant Rasne said, “In order to minimize the use of petrol and diesel vehicles that emit harmful gases and pollute the environment, the PMC has given nod to this project. The project will be implemented within three months.”
“The venture has been approved under the green Pune initiative, wherein a company called VTRO Motors Pvt Ltd will be taking charge of all the costs incurred for this project along with all the operations on revenue sharing basis with the PMC,” Rasne said.
Considering the rapid urbanization, officials feel that a project such as this one will promote a greener environment. The Committee said, “E-bikes will ensure low-cost and end-to-end connectivity over Metro lines too. Also the Municipal Corporation will not bear any cost for the entire project.”
VTRO Co-Founders Pranit Palekar and Heramb Shelke
Co-founders of VTRO Dr Heramb Shelke and Er Pranit Parekar said, “VTRO Motors have taken into consideration the full damage control and robbery issues of the previously run cycle project by developing IOT enabled, futuristic, mobile and GPS controlled bikes and charging stations which has multiple sensors built in the units for the desired safety.”
EV charging machine
“Also, we are setting up standard and fast charging points along with the bikes which will be app enabled for daily, monthly and weekly usage as per choice of an individual. We have now got approval for 2000 charging points across 500 locations in the city with 25 thousand bikes and are in pipeline with the other Municipal Corporations for setting up 50,000 charging points with a number of 25 lakhs EV bikes across India within 36 months,” added CFO Deepak Harne.
Amol Balwadkar, Corporator, PMC Baner
Former City Improvement Committee Chairman and Corporator Amol Balwadkar said, “Punekars will create a magic in green revolution by using maximum EV bikes in the coming future and making Pune pollution free.”
PMC Commissioner Vikram Kumar, Additional Municipal Commissioner (Estates) Kunal Khemnar and Chief Engineer (Roads) V G Kulkarni also gave a principal ok to this upcoming project and said that the PMC will always support such projects that will add to the green revolution of the city.