“…The EV batteries available at present can consume up to 5-8 h for getting fully charged. This puts in perspective the need for rapid expansion of charging stations to bring the number of charging ports up to at least a decent level (Madhu et al, 2018;Phatak et al, 2020;Preetha Yesheswini et al, 2020;Save et al, 2019). At present, there are, at the most, 500 public charging stations in India (Ganesh, 2019;PTI, 2020a), and the Government of India (GOI), foreseeing the requirement, has established an impressive target of erecting one charging station per 3 km distance in cities and at every 25 km interval on both sides of highways (Research and Markets, 2019).…”