2509 CMS Report
We take a look at various software service providers
A Charge Point Operator buys a charger from a charger OEM. The CPOs get the charger online and the new charge point is now visible on the CPO app. When you connect your car to this charger, the CMS plays a crucial role to communicate to the charger that your car is plugged in and needs energy. Thus, CMS companies play a crucial role in enabling e-mobility.
We’ve been monitoring CPOs for a while now and are now ready to present our first CMS report. We identified the companies that these CPOs rely on and we drew up some insights.
Please note, the data of CPOs and CMS is as of September 2025.
In India, we have many companies providing CMS as a service to customers. It is possible that these companies might be serving other CPO customers too that are not covered in our report.
We’ve written about the role of CMS and eMSP players in e-mobility space previously.
Housekeeping
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We had asked a couple of questions in our Live, here are the answers :
Zeon Charging swaps chargers across their sites proactively.
On Tata Power’s chargers, Delta’s chargers were the first ones to enable AutoCharge.
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What are we focused on here?
We identified top CMS companies based on our CPO list. There are two types of CMS companies. One, where multiple CPOs are on the same platform, usually using a service provider and the other case where there’s a single CMS for a single CPO. In the latter’s case, it is usually the case that the CPO has built their own CMS platform or is using a white labelled solution with the CPO’s branding.
We also measured market share based on the number of chargers being serviced by the CMS companies. We see that ElectreeFi is the top CMS company when it comes to both CCS2 and Type2 infrastructure. When we select only CCS2, the number naturally changes with Statiq leading the space.
It is possible to drill down on each CMS player and understand which CPOs (and their charger count) is being served by each CMS player. This information is critical to understand the scale of CPOs being supported by each CMS player.
For example,
Almost 90% of the chargers on ElectreeFi’s CMS is from IOCL.
We take a look at how many OEMs are supported by each CMS player. Each Charger OEM has a different level of firmware maturity, making it critical for CMS player to sometimes do the heavy lifting. Broadly, if a CMS player can work with multiple OEMs, then it is an indicator of a mature CMS product.
Please note, since we do not track the OEMs for Oil PSUs like BPCL, HPCL and IOCL, their OEMs are marked as Unknown. The information is publicly available through the tenders and clients are advised to look at those to get an OEM distribution for the same.
Some other insights from the data :
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Prominent CMS players covered - ChargeZone ‘s ChargeCloud, chargeMOD , ElectreeFi , Steam-A ‘s Iris, Kazam , Numocity , Pulse Energy & Statiq.
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