H2e Power to set up SOFC charging stations at IOC outlets

 

Pune-based H2e Power Systems is waiting for clearance from the Petroleum and Explosive Safety Organization (PESO), a government body, for setting up solid oxide fuel cell-based EV charging stations at the retail outlets of India’s biggest oil refiner-cum-oil marketer, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL), reports the Business Line newspaper. 

At first, the company will set up two, at IOC’s outlets at Rohini (in Delhi) and Faridabad. After gathering experience for a couple of months, the company will set up more, perhaps 10 or so, at other outlets of IOC. 

H2e Power's SOFC machines will be fed by CNG from IOC's petrol stations.

H2e Power will power at least some of the charging stations of IOC, particularly those that are battery-swapping centers. IOCL has said that it would set up EV charging stations at 10,000 of its outlets.  

IOCL has also tied-up with Sun Mobility, a joint venture of the SUN group and Chetan Maini, who started the company that manufactured India’s first EV, the two-seater, REVA.

Sun Mobility will set up battery-swapping stations at IOCL’s petrol bunks. H2e Power will provide energy to recharge the batteries there.