Observer Report
Islamabad
Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry said on Monday that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government was working over a plan to convert public transport into electric vehicles in metropolitan cities of Pakistan.
Addressing a ceremony here in Islamabad, the science and technology minister said that after introducing an electric vehicle charging station in Islamabad, the govt has decided to install EV charging stations on motorways across the country. “The project of installing EV charging stations on motorways would be completed in the next six months”, said Chaudhry after the signing ceremony of a strategic alliance agreement between govt and German company. He said that this is the second agreement the government has signed with a foreign company for the manufacturing of electric buses.