Electric vehicle chargers and Solar PV for rural India

Considering rural India a major contributor to agriculture, many applications of electric vehicles, both light to medium and heavy-duty, apply to improving the produce and productivity. The major food produce is transported over trucks, and many agricultural farming tools require the use of tractors. The vision of increasing the penetration of electric vehicles by government and local companies materializes via a plan that integrates renewable energy with chargers. India is seeing one of the largest moves to cleaner energy generation, with a vision of more than 300GW from solar and wind power in the coming years. A study that derives the relationship between the number of vehicles in rural areas in India and documents the power required to supply using renewables is required for planning a sustainable future for people from low-income to underprivileged statuses. A total of more than 649,369 villages require clean and green power to meet the needs for energy demand for electrified trucks and tractors. To become more independent of the utility grid, a large-scale use of unutilized and underutilized spaces becomes a site for large solar and wind farms. Some farmers were interviewed to understand underutilized spaces on farmland in Akbarpur, Kanpur Dehat, India. The basis of the interview became a driving force to study whether a solar farm becomes a viable solution. The results were generated to identify the potential of the farm in providing power on an annual basis. Accordingly, a combination of level 2 and fast charger, as known from past studies, was proposed.