India’s EV adoption is accelerating, with sales reaching 2 million units in CY24, a nearly sixfold increase in just four years. But the infrastructure powering this transition is struggling to keep pace.
Today, India has ~30,000 public charging stations; however, less than 10% are actively utilised due to reliability issues, theft, and grid challenges. To meet its 2030 ambition of 30% EV penetration, India will need 1.3 million public chargers, a 44x scale-up in just five years.
This report, Powering India’s EV Future: The charging infra playbook, unpacks the hard truths and strategic pathways to bridge this gap.
What You’ll Find Inside
- The Infrastructure Reality Check: Why half of India’s chargers remain idle despite strong EV demand.
- The Economics of Charging: How low utilization is hurting commercial viability and slowing investments.
- Policy & Market Shifts: From PSU dominance (>50% share) to the entry of new-age CPOs, and the role of Viability Gap Funding in Tier-2/3 expansion.
- The Demand Side Surge: Why Commercial Fleets, Logistics, and Last-Mile Mobility Will Be the Biggest Drivers of Charging Infrastructure
- The Roadmap to Scale: Six critical enablers, from interoperability standards (OCPP/OCPI) to tech innovation (battery swapping, V2G), that will define India’s EV charging ecosystem.
Why This Report Matters?
This policy is relevant to Investors, OEMs, Brands, Platforms, Product Heads, Policy Leaders, and the Automotive Industry value chain.
- The EV charging ecosystem is a huge revenue opportunity, but today’s underutilization hides the true scale of the prize. This report helps identify where returns will actually unlock, be it fleets, hubs, or Tier-2 markets.
- Vehicle sales alone cannot sustain adoption. Understanding where and how India’s charging backbone evolves is essential to drive penetration and build long-term consumer trust.
- Competition is shifting from setting up chargers to building reliable, scalable, and interoperable networks. This report provides clarity on the winning playbooks.
- The right frameworks, subsidy design, VGF, and interoperability mandates will determine whether India builds an infrastructure-ready EV future or faces adoption bottlenecks.
- This is not just an energy or mobility story; it’s the defining enabler for India’s clean mobility transition. Getting charging right is the difference between incremental progress and exponential scale.
Download the full report now and gain foresight into how India’s charging ecosystem will evolve, where opportunities lie, and what it will take to capture them.
