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Charging Ahead:

Charging Infrastructure

Transformation in India

With an array of
government charger

point operators
(CPOs) and private
players operating
in the charging

infrastructure
space, the critical

question is not about
the existence of Preetesh Singh Athul Nambolan
charging infra or
discoverability of ndia’s charging ecosystem has seen a monumental shift over
the last 2-3 years, with the adoption of both battery charging
charging stations. stations (BCS) and battery swapping stations (BSS) catching
Instead, the next up with the pace in the country. With over 1.5 million EV
sales in 2023 starting from ~160k vehicles in 2019, the
set of operational Iabsolute number of EVs has zoomed by 9-10X over the last

challenges around four years. Meanwhile, the growth in number of public chargers in
the country has been exponential, with just 451 public chargers in
availability and 2021 to over 13,000 public chargers as per the Bureau of Energy
scaling-up including Efficiency (BEE) by the end of 2023, a number which can potentially
be as high as 28,000 considering that many of the private players
inter-operability of are yet to enlist their new chargers on BEE portal.
the charging stations Current Status of Charging Stations:
becomes critical, Despite a rising number of charging stations, the spread could

state Preetesh Singh, be more evenly distributed. Delhi, with its notorious air pollution
Specialist CASE & status, was one of the first cities with major pilots for charging
infra being deployed and accounted for ~25% of public charging
Alternate Powertrains stations by the end of 2022.

and Athul Nambolan, However, by the end of 2023, as per BEE data, Pune was the
Consultant of Nomura city with the highest number of public charging stations, and
Maharashtra was the leading state with roughly three thousand
Research Institute public charging stations. When top states are considered, barring

(NRI) Consulting and the Delhi-NCR region, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh,
Kerala leads in absolute numbers till the end of 2023, indicating a
Solutions more substantial station presence in southern parts of India.

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