Articles
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Finance
How to defend the utilisation number your whole case rests on
Nearly every input in the model is a fact you can look up. Utilisation is a forecast about strangers — and every revenue line multiplies it. Four grades of evidence, and what a lender does to the number.
26 August 2026
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Demand
How many EV cars actually pass your site in a day?
No counter distinguishes an EV from a petrol car at a highway point. Two public datasets get you to a defensible estimate — and three specific things will mislead you on the way.
26 August 2026
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Process
From application to energisation: what actually happens
Published statutory connection clocks run from 3 days to 167 — and none of them start when you file. What the limits measure, what starts them, and the metering trap specific to charging loads.
21 August 2026
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Compliance
The approvals that stop you switching on
A sanctioned connection does not mean you may energise. The electrical inspectorate holds a separate gate, the local authority a third, and the safety scope they imply is routinely missing from quotations.
21 August 2026
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Method
LT or HT: the connection decision, and the arithmetic that settles it
High tension is not automatically cheaper. One division gives the exact consumption above which HT wins — and on published tariffs there is a major state where it never does.
21 August 2026
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Method
How to read a DISCOM tariff order without getting the number wrong
Two people can quote the same official schedule and be a fifth apart on cost without either misreading a digit. How to assemble a landed energy cost you can defend.
21 August 2026
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Compliance
Can everyone actually use your charging station?
Accessibility does not arrive as its own permit, which is why it is usually discovered after the concrete is down. The five things to screen while the site is still a drawing.
21 August 2026
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Economics
What an EV charging station actually costs in India
The four cost blocks a real budget contains, the regulated service-charge ceiling that caps your margin whatever you do, and why the electricity connection — not the charger — decides most budgets.
19 August 2026
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Regulation
Do you need a licence to open an EV charging station in India?
No — and that answer misleads more people than it helps. De-licensed is not unregulated: the approvals that actually apply are decided by your state, your DISCOM and sometimes your specific parcel.
19 August 2026
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Site selection
How to choose a site for an EV charging station
Four tests, ordered by how cheaply each can disqualify a plot. Run them in the wrong order and you will pay for a traffic study on a site that was never electrically viable.
19 August 2026
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Technology choice
AC or DC: which charger should you install?
The regulated ceiling permits more than three times the margin per unit on DC than on AC. That fact, the load you can actually get, and dwell time decide this — not the hardware price list.
19 August 2026
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Operating cost
What electricity actually costs an EV charging station
The headline tariff rate is not your cost. Landed cost, what kVAh billing does to your bill when power factor slips, and the ACoS cap that runs out in March 2028.
19 August 2026
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Finance
Will a bank fund your EV charging station?
Lenders ask one arithmetic question: does the cash cover the debt every year, with room to spare. What DSCR is, the bar a project has to clear, and why the utilisation basis in most vendor quotations fails it.
19 August 2026
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Franchise
How to evaluate an EV charging franchise offer
A worked case where “33% total ROI” and “renegotiate this deal” are both true — because a third of the investor’s cash rests on an unsecured promise five years out.
19 August 2026
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For landowners
Someone wants your land for an EV charging station. What to ask first.
You have been offered one deal. There are at least eight routes, and one of them is to say no. The terms that decide whether it is worth signing.
19 August 2026
