Author name: Ananta Kar

Picture this: a fully loaded electric truck hurtling down the Delhi-Mumbai expressway, its battery depleting with every kilometre. The driver isn’t anxious—just 20 kilometres ahead, a 350kW charging hub awaits, capable of replenishing hundreds of kilometres of range in under 20 minutes. This isn’t science fiction; it’s Highway Electrification 2.0, and it’s rapidly reshaping India’s

Imagine returning home after a long day, parking your electric vehicle, and simply walking away—no anxious hunt for charging stations, no range anxiety, no hassle. For millions of city dwellers across India, this vision remains frustratingly distant, yet it’s closer than most realize. The real barrier to India’s electric vehicle revolution isn’t the vehicles themselves;

Charging stations are multiplying across India—but quantity means nothing if quality disappoints. The country’s electric vehicle revolution confronts a infrastructure paradox: over 26,000 public charging points installed nationwide as of early 2025, yet drivers routinely encounter broken chargers, unpredictable availability, and byzantine payment systems that transform what should be routine refuelling into frustrating ordeals. Installing

Electric vehicles conquered range anxiety—now they face compatibility chaos. Drivers arriving at charging stations confront a bewildering array of proprietary apps, incompatible payment systems, and networks that refuse to speak to one another, transforming what should be a simple refuelling stop into a frustrating scavenger hunt through digital ecosystems. You need one app for this

The chargers are there—but half the time they don’t work. This brutal reality confronts electric vehicle drivers daily: apps showing available chargers that turn out to be broken, queues forming at functional units whilst neighboring stations sit idle offline, and grid operators scrambling reactively when charging demand spikes unpredictably. Today’s electric vehicle charging networks operate