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Decisions, not opinions.

Articles for people working out whether to build an EV charging station, and what it will actually take. Every material claim carries its source and a confidence grade — and where a number is an estimate rather than a measurement, we say so.

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

City guides

Same question, five different answers. Each guide covers the utility you actually apply to, the verified tariff for that state, what the local approvals layer looks like, and what is still unconfirmed — because the rules that decide your project are set locally, not nationally.

City	Utility	EV energy charge	Fixed / demand	Timing adjustment
Hyderabad Telangana	TGSPDCL	₹6.00/kWh (LT-IX and HT-IX)	LT ₹0/kW-mo HT ₹100/kVA-mo	Peak +₹1.50, solar −₹0.50 per kWh
Mumbai Maharashtra	MSEDCL, Adani, Tata Power or BEST — confirm	₹9.26/kVAh total variable (LT VIII, MSEDCL)	Nil on LT VIII (MSEDCL)	Solar −15% Apr–Sep, −25% Oct–Mar; peak +20%
Gurugram Haryana	DHBVN	₹7.24/unit HT ₹7.48/unit LT	Blank in the schedule — do not read as nil	Not published in our extract
Indore Madhya Pradesh	MPWZ (West) — confirm circle	₹7.44/kWh (LV-6 and HV-8)	No minimum charge	−20% 09:00–17:00, +20% 17:00–09:00
Panaji Goa	GED (state department), JERC tariff	₹5.45/kVAh LTEV-I ₹4.75/kVAh HTS-VI	₹25/kVA-mo LT ₹120/kVA-mo HT	None published in our extract

These figures are not directly comparable. Some are billed per kWh and some per kVAh, which are different quantities — and every one of them excludes FSA/FPPCAS, duty and other additions, so none is a landed cost. Each guide explains the basis for its own state. Rates are from the tariff orders cited in each article and change annually; confirm the current order with your utility before financial commitment.

Answer it for your own site

The articles explain the method. The tools apply it to one specific project — GeoSite for a plot, the ROI calculator for the economics, and the bankability check for the debt coverage. All three are free to run.

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