Home-charging of 2-wheeler EVs may keep public charger demand low

By the year end, Ola Electric will have moved from 50 hyper chargers now to 1,000

The average utilisation of public chargers set up by companies to power electric vehicles per kWh capacity ranges from 5-25 per cent across India, say leading players in the business. The reason is that the electric vehicle (EV) revolution has been kicked off in the country primarily by two-wheelers (over 900,000 vehicles are registered and on the road with a penetration of over 4 per cent) and 80 per cent of them are charged at home.

But electric passenger cars, whose penetration is just 1 per cent, will need a lot of public charging stations because of the longer daily drive