Ayesha Khan and Nikhil Sharma met while working on battery systems at a large automaker. Both owned electric scooters; both kept running out of charge.
Their insight was that India did not need more giant charging stations — it needed thousands of small ones at tea stalls, pharmacies and kirana stores.
Host a charger, earn a little
ChargeDot’s compact charger costs a shopkeeper less than a refrigerator, and riders pay by scanning a QR code. Hosts earn a share of every session.
The best infrastructure is the kind you stop noticing because it is simply everywhere.
The network has grown to 6,500 charge points in 30 cities. “We want charging to be as boring as paying for chai,” Ayesha says.
