2603 - EV Charging Infra
State of EV charging in India - 11th edition - Mar 2026
This is the eleventh edition on the state of Indian EV Charging infrastructure. Time flies! This report contains charts depicting trends across the industry over the past year, CCS2 connectors, leading charge point operators, non working connectors, infrastructure in major metro cities across the country.
A quick primer on the details about various Charging Infrastructure reports are available here.
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Index
Housekeeping
You can read our article on March 2026 charging infrastructure to get an overview.
We are publishing this article from Europe, where we are looking at some interesting insights to bring to the Indian market.
We will be answering a mailbag question at the end of the article. Make sure to give it a read! Today’s questions - 1MW charging and above near ports and highways. Next week we will address why Exicom chargers behave differently on Jio-bp versus other CPOs. Click here to submit more questions!
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Acknowledgement
EVInfraBI was created by Priyans Murarka and Garvit Singh. This wouldn’t have been possible without the efforts of our data entry team.
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Overview
The CCS2 chargers are growing, the Type2 chargers are being taken off the public network, thus their ratio is decreasing rapidly. We covered absolute growth of these numbers in our previous free article. Please check it out for more context.
We’ve also covered why it doesn’t make any sense for CPOs to invest in public Type2 network here. Broad pointers - Type2 charging’s operational expenses mainly rent to hire the space eat up most of the margin that a CPO can make. More units are sold by CCS2 chargers in a much faster time, leading to higher revenue for the fixed amount of rent being paid. Thus, we will continue to see public Type2 going down in the near future.
The grid demand is a better metric to track than CCS2 and Type2 charger ratio. There has been 80% increase Year on Year for the public charging infrastructure. This is a good sign. We believe Grid Demand will continue climbing as CPOs install higher capacity chargers.
The pincode coverage also saw an increase by 25%! Nationally, every three out of ten pincodes now have a CCS2 or a Type2 charger.
The average cost to charge across the network has gone upto INR 18.37 (USD 0.19) per unit. In the later sections, we will see the split between Private and Government CPOs, which will give more clarity on why the pricing jumped by almost INR 0.4 (USD 0.04) in one quarter.
The average charger rating had a double effect on growth - the reduction of Type2 chargers as well as CPOs installing higher power chargers. In our older article, we covered how the average battery capacity and charging capacity of cars is rising, which is in sync with growing average charger rating.
In this article, we will also explore public and government chargers, their ratings, their pricing and strategy with interactive and static charts.
Part 2 will be live next week where we will dig into other aspects of EV charging infrastructure.
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