Hyatt Regency Hotel & Residences Pune has joined hands with Fortum Charge & Drive (C&D) India as its “charging partner” to install EV charging points at their property for their guests.
Fortum C&D India is expanding the robust public charging network in the country and has installed a base of 365+ public charging points across 12 states and 2 UTs, 16 cities including 4 highways and growing. Fortum Charging network includes 50/60 KW CCS/CHAdeMO chargers, Type-2 AC chargers, as well as 15/20/30 KW DC001 chargers catering both to EVs like Mercedes EQC, BMW i3, Audi e-Tron, Hyundai Kona, MG ZS, Tata Nexon, Tata Tiago, Mahindra eVerito /Tata Tigor etc.
The charging stations are up and running at the hotel. Running on clean energy sources, these vehicles are eco-friendly and reduce carbon footprint thus positively affecting the economy. By embracing such technology, Hyatt Regency Hotel & Residences Pune only strives towards making this planet a cleaner and safer place to live.
Awadhesh Jha, executive director, Fortum Charge & Drive India Pvt. Ltd, says “We are happy to collaborate with Hyatt Regency Hotel & Residences Pune to set up EV charging stations for use by the public at large to furthering their vision of a sustainable tomorrow and boosting our commitment to build a cleaner world through establishing robust electric vehicles charging infrastructure at the most accessible locations. He further added that this initiative will promote the adoption of electric vehicles among consumers and strengthen the EV ecosystem. Fortum sees collaboration with Hyatt Regency Hotel & Residences Pune as the first step in the direction to offer convenience, and control to end users for charging their electric cars.”
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