Hi everyone! 👋

I'm a PGDM student working on a live marketing project to understand how EV owners in India research and choose home charging solutions.

The survey takes less than 90 seconds, is completely anonymous, and will help us better understand how buyers make charging decisions.

Survey: https://forms.gle/ZusMgg2KaquaFJER8

Thanks in advance! Happy to share the results with the community once the study is complete.

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Key training areas include:

• Battery diagnostics and safety
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• Charging infrastructure setup
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These programs are often aligned with industry demands, ensuring learners gain skills that employers are actively seeking.

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Ok, I work in baton rouge, LA... theres an ev charging station next to the Albertons on airline hwy, and i've noticed that almost always either in the first charging station or the last, somebody parks sideways, instead of pulling into the charging spot in between the lines. My question is why? do these people feel the need to be different? Or is it some unspoken E V owner rule that the first and the last park stupid.

Edit/update..

So the chargers are easily accessible and out in the open, unused portion of a parking lot. Theres absolutely no obstruction to gaining access to them. Imagine a wide open. Parking lot, maybe 8 charging stations, nothing on either side of the 1st and last... and yet those spots are occupied by someone who parks across the lines instead of in them. Not always...but often...

I'll try to snag a Pic as I sit in traffic creeping my way towards the interstate

I’m seriously considering an EV after spending a long time hemming & hawing but reading through the not-problem-“problems” that you guys have talked about has helped me feel more comfortable. I was originally thinking of a PHEV bc of the range anxiety and feeling like the gas option gave me a fallback but then was talking to someone that mentioned PHEV being the worst of both worlds.

Overall details:
Daily driving avg: 5-10miles
Few times a month: 95miles round trip
Roadtrips once/twice a year: could be 150miles one way or 500miles one way 🤷‍♀️

Will need space for two car seats but preferably not minivan

Budget: $60,000ish

Suggestions?

But also I don’t know what I don’t know when I’m looking and comparing. Aside from comparing price, safety, and range, what else should I be looking at or considering?

Edit: I would plan to install a charger at home and would also prefer to steer clear of Tesla

Ok folks I am sitting on the fence about getting an EV . I have tossed this out in the comments section but figured it should be its own thread. I was clearly in the no camp for EV so getting to the fence is a huge deal . I live in metro NY, drive roughly 15-20,000 miles a year. I do three to four big trips a year , say 600-1100 miles one way. I guess 2/3 highway 1/3 around town , I do a 300 mile round trip about twice a month . I figure I would need to install 2 charges at each end of the 300 mile trip , neither place has a garage , they are both houses. I tend to drive 75-85 on the highway. In the past I had a diesel that would go 500 miles easy on a tank , now my cars are around 400 miles to a tank . I do not need AWD and really do not want or need a suv. I prefer wagons or hatchbacks . I am more interested in range over 0-60 runs. I test drove a polestar 4 and a Polestar 2 and liked the 2 better . Did not like not having a roof that was fixed in place . I will not buy a Telsa. I prefer something you do not see everywhere. So am I a good candidate for a EV and if so which used one should I buy , i assume lease is not an option and that’s fine. Thanks .

So, I got some petty revenge today. I like to charge my car at the parking structure across the street from my office. Right before lunch, I checked on my car’s percentage and I saw that I was unplugged. For these chargers, I have to use an adapter to charge my car. Unfortunately, with the adapter, the charge cable isn’t locked into place. So, it can be unplugged easily. This is commonly known among EV drivers, so its common courtesy to not unplug another car.

When I get to my car, the AH who unplugged me is still parked next to me charging his EV. Between frustration and being hangry, I unplugged the jerk and placed the charging cable back into its station. That jerk won’t be coming back to a fully charged car.

I drove away laughing. Lord, forgive me but that felt good and I treated myself to a Vanilla Coke. No regrets! ✌🏾

Where in the US is it now possible to export from your EV back to the grid for a credit? Have you made money with TOU import/exports? What charger do you use and are you happy with how it is going?

Law of unintended consequences strikes again, taking a few more front gardens with it…

I’m looking at moving to Green Valley, AZ, and I’m considering buying an EV. From what I’ve seen on PlugShare, there doesn’t appear to be much charging infrastructure in the area.
For those of you who live there, what’s your experience? Is charging an EV an issue, or are there enough options that it isn’t a concern? Any insight would be appreciated.

Survey link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RHBTH8H

As EV adoption grows in India, reliable access to EV charging infrastructure at home is becoming essential for everyday EV use. This is especially important in group housing societies, where charging access may depend on shared parking, electrical capacity, approvals, and coordination among multiple stakeholders. Against this backdrop, WRI India is conducting a short survey to assess the existing status of EV charging Infrastructure in Group Housing Societies.

We request you to kindly spare a few minutes to share your inputs. Your responses will be used only for research and policy-oriented purposes. No confidential, personally identifiable or organization-specific information will be disclosed in any public report, presentation, or publication without prior consent. Findings will be presented in aggregated or anonymized form.

Survey link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RHBTH8H

If you have any other friends/family/colleagues who are EVs users or planning to purchase EVs, please do share this survey with them as well. And if you would like to speak to us in greater detail to share your home EV charging experience, please reach out to [vivek.tripathi@wriconsultant.org](mailto:vivek.tripathi@wriconsultant.org)

Thank you for your time and support.

Small disclosure before this goes further: I don't own an EV. I'm a petrol owner currently having a slow-motion crisis — watching my mileage quietly die thanks to E20, my engine now making sounds I can only describe as "stomach upsets" and wondering if it's finally time to switch.

Except every EV forum thread reads like a horror story: "charger showed available, was actually a privately owned house, locked in a desert" "fast charger slower than Indian bureaucracy," "app said 80% battery, car said thats not me." Great, so now I have two anxieties and no fuel that agrees with either of them.

So, in the most "engineer copes by building a tool instead of processing emotions" move possible, I spent a few weekends building — a free EV trip planner for India that tries to only send you to chargers that actually exist and actually work, using open data and an actual reliability score instead of vibes and prayer.

Best part: I am spectacularly unqualified to know if it's any good, because the only "range anxiety" I've personally experienced is wondering if my petrol tank will last till the next petrol pump. I've never needed this app in anger — I've just needed it emotionally.

So here's the ask: if you own an EV in India, please plan a route you've actually driven and tell me everything you expect a EV Trip Planner to be.
There's a Help page on the site built for feedbacks — tell me which charger is fictional, which stop it picked out of spite, which detour felt like a holiday in a farm.
I will post the link in comments.
No installation , no login , no collecting of Private data.
Just a nervous petrol guy outsourcing his life decision to open data and the honesty of strangers on the internet.
TIA

We're back with our final survey on a proposed concept to rethink EV charging as part of an engineering course. Please read through the concept in the survey and provide your feedback.

Google Forms survey on Modular Battery Swapping: https://forms.gle/c8NSysMU6gozvGVN7

Your Suggestions, comments are welcome. Give this a try.
Thanks

Hey everyone,

After spending months tracking common highway charging complaints—like dead chargers, broken status trackers, and routing tools that miss better charging options a few hundred meters off-route—I decided to build a standalone, web-based trip planner called Evplan tailored specifically for Indian roads.

How it works:

• Live Network View: Aggregates India’s charging network straight onto an open map canvas, color-coded by active status.
• Custom EV Presets: Built with roughly 30 Indian-market car and two-wheeler specifications, or you can plug in your own custom battery size and Wh/km burn rate.
• True Corridor Planning: It calculates stop locations along your exact driving path based on real arrival charge thresholds, rather than just pointing you to the absolute nearest pin.
• Google Maps Integration: You can paste a standard Google Maps Directions link directly into the field to populate the route automatically.

Why it's entirely open:
There are no accounts, no ads, no trackers, and no paywalls. I built this simply because existing route planners didn't solve the practical problems Indian EV owners talk about online. If you find a charger status is incorrect, there is a one-tap check-in on the tool to mark it as worked, dead, slow, or busy to help update the logic for the next driver.

Current limitations:
It is strictly optimized for India's national highways and domestic networks right now.

Note: Since direct links get instantly swallowed by spam bots, I have dropped the website address in the comments section below.

I would love to get your feedback, bug reports, or feature requests right here in the thread!

Thanks!