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In this article, Preetesh Singh, Principal at Nomura Research Institute, explains why the next phase of electric mobility will depend as much on location intelligence, interoperability, uptime, payments, and grid orchestration as it does on hardware.
An electric-vehicle charger is easy to recognise: a cabinet, a cable, a screen and a parking bay. The infrastructure that determines whether it is useful is far less visible. A driver needs to know that the charger exists, that it is compatible, that it is available, that payment will work and that the promised power will actually be delivered. The operator needs to know whether the site is economically viable, whether a failing component can be repaired before the next customer arrives and whether dozens of vehicles can charge without exceeding the building’s or the local grid’s capacity.
This invisible layer—connectivity, software, data and operating intelligence—is becoming the decisive layer of India’s charging network.
The central proposition is straightforward: India will not solve charging merely by installing more boxes. It must build a dependable digital system around those boxes. That system has four jobs. It must put chargers in the right places, make them easy to find and use, keep them operational, and coordinate their demand with the electricity system. When those jobs are done well, charging becomes an ordinary background service. When any one fails, even an expensive high-power charger can become a stranded asset.
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