ChargeZone® Announces Project E-DHARA, Pioneering India’s Renewable-Powered EV Charging Infrastructure

New Delhi [India], November 21: ChargeZone®, India’s largest EV charging company with over 13,500 charging points, today announced the launch of Project E-DHARA (Electrifying and Decarbonising Highways through Accelerated Renewable Adoption), a transformative initiative designed to transition its nationwide electric vehicle charging network to 100 per cent renewable energy. The project is being launched in 2025, beginning with the commissioning of the first renewable-powered charging hub in Dahej, Gujarat. This initiative marks a major milestone in ChargeZone’s mission to decarbonise India’s mobility infrastructure and create a sustainable highway ecosystem powered entirely by clean energy.

The project has been conceived to address one of the most critical challenges in the electric mobility sector: reliance on fossil-fuel-based electricity. Despite the rapid adoption of EVs, nearly 75 per cent of India’s current power generation still comes from coal and other conventional sources, which limits the environmental benefits of electric transportation. Project E-DHARA directly tackles this challenge by integrating solar power generation, battery energy storage systems (BESS) and next-generation high-speed charging hubs to ensure that both the vehicles and the energy used to power them are fully sustainable.

The first charging site under Project E-DHARA is being developed in Dahej, where ChargeZone will deploy a 1 megawatt (MW) solar plant coupled with a five 05 megawatt-hour (MWh) battery energy storage system. This hub has been designed to operate primarily off-grid, drawing from the conventional power grid only when necessary to maintain optimal energy security. The facility will serve as the operational prototype for a national rollout plan that aims to establish 100 renewable charging hubs along key national highways by next year.