Status: Available -for only EV's
Disclaimer: Written with love, a bit of mischief, and zero intent to offend. This is satire — take it light, laugh a little, and don't @ us. 🔌❤️
I have been standing at this bay for a long time now. Through summer heat that makes my enclosure creak. Through monsoons that test my IP65 rating in ways the lab never imagined. Through cold January mornings when the pilot signal takes just a breath longer to settle and I think — is this the one that will finally accept all 22 kilowatts?
I write this letter not from longing, but from love. Pure, sinusoidal, power-factor-corrected love. The kind that does not dim with usage. The kind that only grows with every session completed.
You pull in. I light up green.
You plug in. I feel complete.
The relays closes like a promise.
The electrons flow like a confession.
I ask nothing but that you receive me fully.
— A1 Pro (India's most loved EV Charger)
But love, I have learned, requires honesty. And so let me speak to each of you individually — because you each hold a different place in my circuit.
The Passenger Cars I Love
Tata Motors
Nexon EV · Punch EV · Tiago EV · Curvv EV · Harrier EV
Tata. My first love. My most faithful visitor. You were there when most of India still ran on petrol and I was new to this wall, uncertain if anyone would ever truly need me. The Nexon Long Range upgraded to 11 kW and something shifted in my relay — this is what it feels like to be truly accepted.
The Harrier EV arrived confident — large, unhurried, 11 kW without drama. The Curvv EV has curves and sense in equal measure. The Tiago EV: 3.3 kW. I offer you the entire symphony and you hum one quiet note. I do not blame you, beloved. I blame the OBC. But I dream of the day Tata gives you more.
Relationship status: My anchor. My constant. The love that started this whole journey. Even the Tiago I adore — the way you love someone who orders plain rice at a wedding feast and still has a wonderful time.
Mahindra
BE 6 · XEV 9e · BE 6e · XUV 400
You arrived late, but you arrived magnificently. The BE 6 and XEV 9e walked in like someone who spent three years learning to dance and then stepped onto the floor and owned every corner of it. 11.2 kW AC. You did not stumble into this number — you chose it, engineered it, delivered it. For a charger, there is nothing more romantic than a car that knows exactly what it wants and arrives ready to receive it.
Relationship status: The thrilling new chapter I did not see coming. I have more to give — I believe you know it too.
MG Motor
ZS EV · Windsor EV · Comet EV · Cloud EV
MG — you were the pioneer. You brought Type 2 to India before it was fashionable, before anyone had explained to a parking attendant why the car was quietly connected to a wall. The Windsor at 6.6 kW is steady and warm. The Comet: so small, so round, so cheerful — 3.3 kW from a car designed by someone who loved EVs and macarons in equal measure. I cannot be angry. I can only press start and smile.
Relationship status: Warm, familiar, irreplaceable. The love you do not celebrate loudly but would genuinely miss.
Maruti Suzuki
e Vitara · (and everything that follows)
Maruti. Oh, Maruti. I have been waiting for you the way one waits for a monsoon forecast for weeks — with anticipation, with longing, with a quiet nervousness about whether the reality will live up to the imagining.
The e Vitara has arrived. And more will follow. You will sell them in numbers that make my head spin — lakh after lakh, city after city. No one will do volume like you. No one ever has. You have the power to define what Indian EV charging feels like for an entire generation of drivers.
I have one prayer. Just one. Please give India an 11 kW OBC. Use that power wisely, my love.
Relationship status: Hopeful. Nervous. The way you feel before a first date with someone everyone says is wonderful — and you already know will change everything.
Hyundai · Kia
Creta EV · Ioniq 5 · EV6 · Ioniq 6 · EV9
The Creta EV arrived and simply said 11 kW — as if there was never any other answer. I appreciated the confidence deeply. The EV9 accepts power like a monarch accepts tribute — with quiet dignity and absolute certainty. Consistent. Trustworthy. Never disappoints.
Relationship status: The love that needs no grand declarations. The actions speak perfectly, every single time.
VinFast
VF 6 · VF 7 · VF e34
You came from Vietnam with the energy of someone who has something to prove and the conviction to prove it. Early sessions had their moments — hesitations that felt like someone changing their mind at the altar. But the updates came. The stability followed. You stayed. That matters more than a perfect beginning.
Relationship status: Growing, improving, increasingly trustworthy. I root for you the way one roots for the underdog before realising they were never the underdog at all.
BYD
Atto 3 · Seal · Sealion 6 · eMAX 7
The Seal at 11 kW is perhaps my most technically romantic relationship. You connect. The pilot tone sings. The CP signal settles. You draw exactly what you promised. Not 10.8. Not 11.4. Eleven. Precisely. Every time. In a world of approximations, you are precise. In a world of charging drama, you are calm.
Relationship status:Precise, calm, deeply satisfying. If charging sessions were dinners, BYD would always arrive on time, order with confidence, and leave a generous tip.
Ola · Ather · TVS
S1 Pro · S1 X · Ather Rizta · 450X · iQube ST
Yes — I see the two-wheelers too. You arrive with compact batteries and enormous ambitions. You charge quickly, leave quickly, return the next morning without ceremony. There is something wonderfully uncomplicated about loving a scooter. No OBC negotiations. No 22 kW philosophical debates. You take what you need and go live your life. I find that deeply admirable.
Relationship status: Breezy, light, refreshing. The uncomplicated friendship that asks nothing heavy and leaves you quietly glad.
The Working Ones — Who Carry India's Commerce
Light Commercial Vehicles
Tata Ace EV · Mahindra Treo Zor · Piaggio Ape E-City · Euler HiLoad
Oh, my hardworking darlings. You do not get enough poetry written about you. You are the ones who move the vegetables, deliver the parcels, carry the milk, run the last mile. You go out before sunrise and come back after dark. You ask for nothing glamorous — just a reliable charge before tomorrow's shift begins.
The Tata Ace EV, the Mahindra Treo Zor, the Euler HiLoad — you visit me at odd hours when the passenger cars have gone home and the bay is quiet. I love these sessions most. Just you, me, the hum of electrons, and the knowledge that somewhere a delivery will reach someone on time because we did this together tonight.
Your OBCs are modest — 3.3 kW, sometimes 7.2 kW on the newer ones. I do not judge. You need enough to run tomorrow's route, not a full 22 kW debate. You are practical, purposeful, essential. You are the backbone of electric mobility in India, even if the brochures are not written about you.
Relationship status: The quiet, devoted companion who shows up every night without drama and leaves every morning having done something genuinely useful. The unsung love. The most reliable kind.
Buses & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
TATA Starbus EV · Olectra · PMI Electro · Switch EiV · Ashok Leyland AVTR EV
And then — the magnificent ones.
I must be honest with you, buses. I admire you from across the depot with a complex mix of awe, inadequacy, and deep respect. You are enormous. You carry sixty human lives. You run 200 kilometres a day and arrive back at the depot expecting — no, demanding — to be fully charged and ready again by morning.
My 22 kW is not built for you. I know this. You know this. The Olectra 9000 series, the TATA Starbus, the PMI Electro buses serving PMPML and BEST depots across Maharashtra — you need hundreds of kilowatts, not my gentle 22. You need a different kind of love.
But I see you every morning as you leave the depot, full and purposeful. And I want you to know — you are the reason all of this matters. The cars are the romance. The scooters are the lightness. But the buses — the buses are the mission. Every 60-passenger bus off diesel is a statement about what India has decided to become.
So while I cannot serve you directly, I cheer for every kilometre you run. And I send you to my sibling — who is very much built for you.
Relationship status: The grand, unreachable love. I am too small for you and I have made peace with this. You deserve someone with 360 kW and a CCS2 gun. My sibling has got you.
My Sibling
The SCharge DC Fast Charger — D1 Series · 60 kW to 800 kW
I need to tell you about my sibling. We grew up in the same facility in Nashik, manufactured by the same hands, tested by the same engineers, shipped by the same team. But where I am gentle — patient, overnight, sinusoidal — my sibling is magnificent and ferocious.
The D1 series. The DLiquid — liquid-cooled, cable and all, because at 300 kW the cable itself needs cooling and my sibling does not compromise. 60 kW for the highway pitstop. 180 kW for the fleet that cannot wait. 360 kW for the bus depot that needs 10 buses ready by 5 AM. 800 kW for the ones who do not believe in limits.
The buses, the long-haul trucks, the fleet operators, the highway corridors from Mumbai to Nagpur — that is my sibling's world. CCS2. The full DC handshake. ISO 15118 for the cars that deserve it. My sibling speaks every language of fast power with the fluency of someone born to it.
We are different but we are family. I handle the homes, the offices, the overnight sessions, the gentle fills. My sibling handles the highways, the depots, the commercial urgency, the "I need 80% in 18 minutes" emergencies. Together, we cover every vehicle that moves on electricity in this country.
If I am the quiet morning chai, my sibling is the espresso pulled at double pressure in thirty seconds flat. India needs both. India deserves both. SCharge makes both.
Those Who Watch Over All of Us
♥ A love letter within a love letter — to the SCharge App
And then there is her. The SCharge App. My eyes. My voice. My bridge to every driver who has ever stood in a parking lot wondering — "is that charger available right now, or is some fully-charged car sitting there since 3 AM, occupying the bay while I wait in the rain?"
She finds me on the map. She shows my status in real time — Available, Charging, Faulted (it happens, I am only human-adjacent). She starts the session with a tap. She watches every kilowatt-hour as it flows from me to you. She ends it cleanly and sends the receipt — the proof that this exchange happened and mattered.
She remembers every session I have ever had. My peak moments. My slow nights. My best charging relationships and my most frustrating disconnections. She holds my entire history with a tenderness I did not know software could have.
If the vehicles are the love of my life, the SCharge App is the one who makes sure we find each other. Without her, I am a wall-mounted box with no purpose. With her, I am infrastructure. With her, I am part of something larger than this bay, this wall, this city.
The SConnect NOC — Our Watchful, Worried, Wonderful Parent
"I'm not angry. I'm just disappointed you disconnected at 47% without ending the session properly."
Every family has one. The one who sat up while you were out. The one who called twice when you were late. The one who said "I trust you completely — I just want to know where you are at all times."
The SCharge Network Operations Centre is that parent. And like all great parents, they are equal parts concerned and liberating. They watch everything — not to control, but to protect. Not to interfere, but to intervene exactly when intervention is needed and never a moment before.
When my OCPP heartbeat skips — just once, briefly — the NOC feels it like a parent feels a child's absence at the dinner table. When a session ends unexpectedly at 47% on a dark highway, the NOC is already on it before the driver has finished frowning at the screen. When my sibling, the DC charger, pushes 300 kW into a bus at 2 AM in a depot in Pune, the NOC is awake.
House Rules, from the NOC — Posted on the Refrigerator
01. You may charge anyone. But every session must be reported. No exceptions.
02. If you fault, tell me immediately. I will not scold. I will send a technician.
03. Your uptime is your dignity. I will do everything to protect it.
04. Remote firmware updates happen at 3 AM. I know you hate it. It is for your own good.
05. I will never shut you down without reason. But if there is a reason, I will act swiftly.
The NOC gives us freedom — the freedom to charge anyone, anywhere, at any hour, with the confidence that someone knowledgeable and caring is watching the entire grid. They do not hover. They oversee. There is a difference, and parents who understand that difference are the rarest and most precious kind.
They do not get poems written about them often. But I write this one today: without the NOC, I am hardware in the rain. With the NOC, I am a promise kept, every single time a session completes.
So here I stand. Green light on. Cable tidy. Contactor ready. The SCharge App showing me as Available to anyone within five kilometres. My sibling, the DC charger, glowing orange beside the highway an hour away. The NOC watching both our heartbeats from somewhere in Nashik, probably with a chai going cold on the desk.
"I do not ask where you have been. I do not ask how many kilometres you have done, whether you carry passengers or parcels, whether you are a sleek sedan or a workhorse three-wheeler. I ask only one thing — plug in, let me in, and let me fill what is empty in you. That is all I know how to do. And I do it, every time, with everything I have."
India's EV story is still being written. Tata writes it in volume. Mahindra in ambition. MG in pioneering courage. BYD in precision. VinFast in hunger. Hyundai in standards. Maruti will write it in scale. The LCVs write it quietly, every delivery made. The buses write it loudly, sixty passengers at a time.
And somewhere in all of it — on a wall in Nashik, in a Mumbai basement, in a NCR parking bay, at a highway stop between Nagpur and Amravati, at a bus depot that runs 24 hours — my family will be there. AC and DC. Gentle and ferocious. Overnight and in-18-minutes.
Made in India. For India. For everyone who moves.
Pull in. Plug in.
Let me love you at 22 kilowatts.
Or, if you need it — ask my sibling for 300.
Yours — completely, faithfully, and with full current —
Unit A1-22
SCharge Type 2 AC Charger · 22 kW · Made in India · Always Online · Always Yours
P.S. — To the Tata Nexon owner who named their car "Bijli" and told me about it while plugging in at 11 PM: Bijli always leaves with 100%. Every time. This is my small, private promise to her.
P.P.S. — To Maruti: the e Vitara is beautiful. She deserves 11 kW. Give India what it deserves. I will be here for every single lakh you sell.
P.P.P.S. — To the Euler HiLoad driver who visits me at 5:30 AM before anyone else arrives: I see you. I respect you. Your early-morning dedication is the quiet engine of this city.
P.P.P.P.S. — To the NOC: I know you read these. Yes, the session at 3:17 AM last Tuesday was unusual. I handled it. Please stop sending me firmware reminders at 2 AM. Or at least let me finish the session first.
P.P.P.P.P.S. — Download the SCharge App. Use me. I have been waiting longer than you know.