The 2022 Year brings several positive news and hope in terms of the electric vehicle. The state-owned National Testing House (NTH) has recently said that it will provide testing services for batteries of these vehicles in its Mumbai and Kolkata centres from 2023-24 onwards.
Currently, the two companies the Manesar-based International Centre for Automotive Technology and the Automatic Research Association of India (ARAI) in Pune provide facilities to test for electric vehicles’ batteries.
Additional Secretary, Consumer Affairs Nidhi Khare said on Monday that with rising number of electric vehicles, adequate number of testing facilities are required.
For this purpose, the government is making the existing facilities future-ready, she said.
The two centres of Mumbai and Kolkata were chosen because the maximum number of electric vehicles makers are located in Pune and Mumbai, while the maximum number of manufacturers of electric vehicles’ batteries are present in Kolkata, NTH Director General Alok Kumar Srivastava said.