New Delhi, September 15, 2026: Charger on Wheels (COW), a Gurugram-founded EV charging company, provides on-demand DC fast charging through mobile, self-powered units, delivered directly to the vehicle rather than requiring drivers to seek out a fixed charging point. The company’s model requires no trenching and no transformer upgrade and is designed for residential communities, fleets and other locations where installing permanent charging infrastructure is difficult or impractical.
COW’s core thesis: most EVs spend the bulk of their time parked, not driving, so charging infrastructure should be built around where vehicles already sit, at homes, offices and fleet depots, rather than treated as a destination the vehicle has to travel to.
That thesis is backed by wider industry data. A recent Rubix Data Sciences report, using Ministry of Heavy Industries figures, shows India‘s public charging network has grown sixfold since 2022, from around 5,000 stations to over 29,000 by 2025 and to 67,657 (including battery-swapping hubs) by August 2026. Yet capacity utilisation across this network remains low, estimated at just 1 to 5 percent by separate SBI and S&P Global assessments, largely because most EV owners charge at home or work rather than at public stations. A 2023 Tata Motors study found 93 per cent of its EV owners charge at home or in the office, a pattern consistent with charging data previously shared by Ather Energy, which put home charging at 90 to 95 per cent.
For residential communities, COW’s model addresses a problem fixed charging infrastructure struggles with directly: apartment complexes often can’t easily support dedicated charging hardware for every EV owner, given the electrical upgrades and civil work involved. Mobile charging removes that requirement, delivering charging on demand without asking a building to be rewired for it.
The same logic extends to fleets. Rather than routing vehicles to a charging point and building downtime into schedules for the detour, COW can dispatch charging to depots and stops where fleet vehicles already operate, keeping vehicles in service and charging infrastructure closer to actual demand.
“The question for India‘s charging industry is no longer simply how many chargers we can install,” said Anil Kumar, Founder and CEO, Charger on Wheels. “It is whether we can build a charging network around how people and vehicles actually move. For years, the industry has thought about EV charging as a destination, a place the vehicle has to reach. But if most EVs spend their time parked at homes, offices and fleet depots, the more logical model is to make charging infrastructure mobile instead.”
Charger on Wheels is currently live in Gurugram, with 280+ customers, and is expanding to Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune. The company has technology support from Exicom Tele-Systems and works with real estate developer M3M and BMW/MINI dealership Bird Automotive.