Charzer: Charge your EV anytime, anywhere

With growing environmental concerns, electric vehicles (EV) are now in focus more than ever before. Industry estimates peg the current number of EVs at approximately one million, out of which around 99.5% of EVs are two-wheelers and three-wheelers. Though clean mobility is slowly gaining momentum, there are a number of hurdles in the way of faster adoption. Range anxiety is one of them. “EVs cannot become a mainstream transportation option until we have an extensive public charging infrastructure,” says Sameer Ranjan Jaiswal, co-founder and CTO at Bengaluru-based Charzer, an enterprising venture in this niche sector.

“Charzer was started with an aim to address this problem. We want to convert the neighbourhood kiranas, cafes, restaurants, malls and even tea shops into EV charging stations, thereby creating a vast EV charging station network for the consumer,” he says. According to global standards, there should be a public charging station for every 10 electric vehicles. As per conservative growth estimates (CAGR of 43.13%), by end of 2022, there will be at least 5.3 million EVs which will need 5,30,000 public charging stations in which more than 95% will be Type 2 AC charging stations (Kirana Charzers).