ChargeZone, India’s largest EV charging network with over 15,000 charging points, and Fresh Bus, a leading all-electric inter-city bus service, today announced an expansion of their existing partnership, under which Fresh Bus will deploy an additional 400 all-electric buses on ChargeZone’s charging network.
Under the expanded partnership, the Fresh Bus fleet supported by ChargeZone infrastructure will grow from 100 to 500 buses. The expanded operations will connect 20 cities and cover 17 additional towns across Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana over the next 15 months.
To power this larger fleet, ChargeZone will deploy 30 MW of new charging capacity alongside its existing 10 MW of dedicated infrastructure for the Fresh Bus network, taking total deployed capacity to 40 MW. This also contributes to ChargeZone’s broader plan to add 200 MW of charging capacity across its national network. At full scale, the partnership is estimated to deliver 100 million units of energy annually, support more than 20,000 passenger journeys per day, and reduce approximately 9,000 to 10,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year.
Mr. Kartikey Hariyani, Founder & CEO of ChargeZone, said India’s EV transition will not be driven by personal vehicles alone, and that commercial mobility, particularly intercity public transport, can play a critical role in scaling electrification given how frequently these vehicles operate and how much they depend on predictable infrastructure. He said the partnership with Fresh Bus has shown that when charging capacity, uptime, and energy availability are built around fleet operations, operators can scale electric mobility with greater confidence, and that this expansion extends that proven model to more routes.
Mr. Sudhakar Reddy, Founder of Fresh Bus, said the biggest early question wasn’t whether passengers would choose electric intercity travel, but whether charging infrastructure could keep pace with a growing daily fleet across every corridor. He said the partnership with ChargeZone has answered that question, with the network’s reliability enabling the company to move from proving the model to scaling it with confidence. He added that expanding to 500 buses and 40 MW of dedicated charging capacity is a statement that electric intercity travel can be dependable, affordable, and ready for passengers, representing what public electric mobility in India should look like: comfortable, sustainable, and built to scale.
