Glida's Jodi chargers
A dive into their North India infrastructure.
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What is a Jodi charger and why do we care?
When there are atleast two chargers by different CPOs within a 2-3 minute walking distance, they are referred to as jodi chargers. In Hindi, jodi means a pair. Read how this came about. The algorithm to identify Jodi chargers and the associated properties was designed and executed by Garvit for ExpWithEVs.
For a customer, having two chargers by different CPOs is always a boon. They have an option to pick their favourite CPO, giving them choices. If there’s a queue at the station, there’ll be a faster turnaround given that there are more chargers. Having more than one charger on a site gives great confidence to the customer, especially in areas surrounded by poor charging infrastructure. The customer can also find the best price without spending, i.e. driving to a newer location to find cheaper charging.
From a company’s perspective, smaller CPOs get instant branding and exposure when they tag on to a bigger network’s site. If both the CPOs use same hardware, then maintenance becomes cheaper for the service provider. CPOs can also share costs on electrical upgradation, civil works, etc. It also makes it easier to attract fleet operators in urban areas.
Today, we are using EVInfraBI to understand which CPOs have been installing chargers next to Glida’s fast chargers in northern part of India.
There are 263 Jodi chargers across north India, of which there are 13 Glida’s CCS2 Jodis involving 62 chargers.
The CPOs involved in this list are Glida, Tata Power, Statiq, Jio-bp, IOCL, Indus and HPCL.
Let’s take a look
NH334, the highway connecting New Delhi to Dehradun has four such Jodis, with two of them around Muzaffarnagar. There are two more on highways, one on Delhi - Mumbai old highway, just before entering Rajasthan in Haryana and one on old Delhi - Agra highway, near Kosi before Mathura.
There’s one jodi in Chandigarh and the rest in Delhi NCR region. Six on highways, ten in cities. Glida’s non urban to urban charger ratio stands at 15% : 85% in the northern region. While urban areas have a greater absolute number of Jodis, non-urban chargers are more likely to be Jodis. This means Jodis are seen more frequently relative to the total number of chargers in non-urban areas compared to urban ones.
Five jodi chargers out of the sixty two came online in Q1 CY25. This includes one charger by Indus, a CPO I wasn’t tracking prior to March 2025. For Jodi number 273, there was a 25kW Tata Power charger at Jungpura, New Delhi here in December 2024. Glida and HPCL added 60kW chargers near this site by March 2025.
There are two Jodis with four CPOs each!
Jodi number 71 and 251.
I’d like to take a bet and say that outside of free charging, the Tata Power charger at Fun and Food Carnival must be seeing lower traffic. You can figure out why :)
Likewise here too, Tata Power must be relatively less utilized as compared to their Jodis. These are all in downtown Gurgaon.
Three installations, Dehradun hub (Jodi 375), DLF Promenade (Jodi 288) and DLF Avenue (Jodi 152) are also Glida’s charging hubs. A charging hub is a charging station by a single CPO having atleast ten connectors. Charging hubs is the way to go for EV charging. Read why, here.
Average Power
In most locations, Glida’s chargers either match or exceed the power rating of competitors, with only one exception at Jodi 148 where Statiq has a slight edge over Glida.
Glida’s 200kW Kempower charger at Jodi 370 dramatically outpaces Tata Power’s 60kW in the same area, making Glida the clear leader in high-speed charging in that neighborhood.
Note: The two setups may not share the same electrical connection, so comparison is about proximity, not shared infrastructure.
Jodi 375, Glida’s hub in Dehradun, is another standout. Here, Glida operates multiple chargers with an average output of 146 kW, in stark contrast to Tata Power’s modest 30 kW setup nearby. In terms of capacity and scalability, Glida is far ahead of its competitors.
Glida wins this round. Can it beat its competitors on pricing?
Average Pricing
Glida holds its ground well on pricing, with only a few exceptions - Statiq and PSUs. Glida has flat pricing except at Jodi 370, which is the high power Kempower charger setup.
In Jodi 71, where multiple private players operate, all providers including Glida, are within ₹2 of each other, showing a healthy level of competition and pricing parity.
PSUs, however, tend to undercut Glida. On average, they are ₹5 cheaper, making them the most budget-friendly option in the mix. We all know the state of PSU charging stations though.
Statiq also edges past Glida in a few cases. At four different locations, Statiq's pricing is ₹0.45 to ₹0.95 lower, offering a minor cost advantage for price-sensitive users. There are some benefits of being an aggregator after all.
Meanwhile, Tata Power lags behind on affordability. Across nine Jodis where both Tata and Statiq operate, Tata Power is ₹4.6 more expensive on average. The biggest outlier is Jodi 66, a highway site near Muzaffarnagar, where Tata’s (30kW) pricing is almost 50% higher than Glida’s 120kW, a significant delta for slower charging. I recommend the pricing team at Tata Power to take a look at some of EVInfraBI’s features and figure out the best for them.
Non Working Chargers
Glida, Jio-bp, HPCL and IOCL have a solitary non working charger. Tata Power, Statiq and Indus’ chargers are all working.
Overall, these are great statistics for chargers across this region.
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