Solar-Based Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in India: A Perspective Rajan Kumar, Rabinder Singh Bharj, Jyoti Bharj, Gurkamal Nain Singh, and Monia Sharma 1 Introduction 1.1 Background Many countries are quickly adopting the technologies related to EVs and slowly elim- inating fossil fuel-based vehicles to battle climate alteration and increasing pollution. Most air pollution produced the world over is by burning fossil fuel to produce elec- tricity, heating, transportation, and industries. Fossil fuels accounted for 80.110% of the world’s total primary energy supply in 2019 (monthly energy review 2020). It is observed that energy-related use of fossil fuel is a major source of air pollution amongst high- and middle-income countries, while the use of biomass is a prime concern for air pollution resulting from energy generation in the case of low-income countries. The combustion of fossil fuels in vehicles produces harmful gases which have an adverse effect on the environment and human beings. Emissions of acidic sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, mixed with atmospheric moisture, cause acid rain that leads to harmful effects to the community as well as forest area. The most hazardous impact of fossil fuels is carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emission into the atmo- sphere (Perera 2018). CO 2 is one of the major trace gases in the atmosphere, the level of which had increased by 35% in the last 200 years. From 1985 to 2005 along the level of CO 2 had increased from 316 to 375 ppm, resulting in global warming, which results in the overall increase of 1.25 °F (0.7 °C) in the temperature level of the R. Kumar (B ) · R. S. Bharj · G. N. Singh Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Jalandhar, Punjab 144011, India e-mail: rajank@nitj.ac.in; rajan.rana9008@gmail.com J. Bharj · M. Sharma Department of Physics, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Jalandhar, Punjab 144011, India © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021 H. Tyagi et al. (eds.), New Research Directions in Solar Energy Technologies, Energy, Environment, and Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0594-9_10 275