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A caller study connected Kerala’s electrical conveyance (EV) charging web has revealed ‘gaps,’ chiefly successful the elevation regions, freight corridors and inter-district routes, underscoring the request to look beyond municipality and different high-demand areas fixed the dependable summation successful EV penetration successful the confederate State.
The ‘Spearheading Kerala’s electrical mobility transition: A survey connected spatial organisation and heatmap investigation of accelerated electrical conveyance charging stations’ drawn up by the EV Accelerator Cell of the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) with method assistance from think-tank Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) observed that cities similar Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode grounds beardown coverage, portion agrarian belts lag behind.
The study was unveiled astatine the ‘Shoonya EV Conclave 2025’ jointly organised by the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB), the NITI Aayog and think-tank Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) present connected Thursday. The study observed that Kerala has made important strides successful processing charging infrastructure, with implicit 440 nationalist fast-charging stations and pole-mounted units already operational. On the mode forward, it suggested accrued absorption on tourism corridors, agrarian and interior State highways and inter-State linkages to Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
Among the districts, Wayanad, Idukki, Malappuram and Palakkad presently bask “favourable EV-to-charger ratios,” indicating infrastructure readiness up of demand, according to the report. “By contrast, Thiruvananthapuram and Kasaragod amusement higher infrastructure strain, wherever the gait of EV adoption is outpacing charging deployment,” it said.
The investigation which covered 14 districts revealed gaps successful the EV charging web on the inter-State freight corridors, tourism and high-range routes, immoderate stretches on National Highway 66 — the State’s main north-south artery — and parts of Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram districts.
‘Under-served’ routes
The integrated district-level investigation identified the pursuing routes arsenic ‘under-served’ and demanding precedence intervention: In the north, the Kasaragod-Kannur-Kozhikode NH 66 stretch, the State Highway conception linking Kannur and Wayanad and the Wayanad-Mysuru elevation routes were listed arsenic ‘under-served’ by EV charging stations.
In Central Kerala, specified routes included the Thrissur-Ernakulam-Alappuzha NH 66 stretch, the Thrissur-Palakkad-Coimbatore NH 544 agelong and the Malappuram-Palakkad-Coimbatore stretch. In the south, the NH 66 agelong linking Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram and the MC roadworthy linking Angamaly-Thiruvananthapuram person recovered notation successful the report. Beyond these, the investigation besides revealed gaps successful the high-range and tourism corridors including respective routes successful Idukki district, and the routes to Vagamon, Thekkady, Kuttikanam, Idukki Wildlife Sanctuary and Sabarimala.
Kerala’s EV charging ecosystem has reached a pivotal signifier wherever enlargement indispensable spell beyond municipality and high-demand pockets to guarantee Statewide accessibility, the study said. “The identified under-served corridors are not lone captious for rider mobility but besides captious for freight question and tourism connectivity. Addressing these gaps volition alteration balanced growth, trim scope anxiety, and fortify Kerala’s presumption arsenic a person successful sustainable electrical mobility,” it said.
EV penetration complaint successful Kerala has shown an summation from 1% successful 2021 to 13% successful 2025, according to the report. Till May 2025, EV registrations stood astatine 2,46,692, the study said, citing information from the Centre’s Vahan dashboard. Electric two-wheelers predominate the registrations followed by backstage four-wheelers.
