The EV Charger That Doesn’t Want to Be Replaced

India’s EV charging infrastructure is expanding rapidly, but the challenge is ensuring installed chargers can cope with India’s uneven power infrastructure, changing charging standards, and evolving vehicle requirements. As of July, India had 52,718 public EV charging stations, of which 16,561 were equipped with fast chargers for cars, according to the Ministry of Heavy Industries. The government has also allocated ₹2,000 crore under the PM E-DRIVE scheme for public charging infrastructure.

Mordor Intelligence estimates India’s EV charging station market at $710 million in 2025 and projects it to reach $2.48 billion by 2030, representing a 28.5% CAGR. Other market estimates put the broader charging infrastructure opportunity even higher, at around $780 million in 2025 and $2.9 billion by 2030. However, simply increasing the number of charging points does not necessarily solve the reliability problem.

Hyderabad-based Vanix Technologies, founded in 2021 by three IIT Ropar PhDs—Ashwani Kumar Rana, Muddasani Satyanarayana and Mandhatya Singh—started as an FPGA and embedded-systems company before moving towards what it describes as ‘Physical AI’.

The company now works across EV charging, industrial IoT, agriculture, livestock intelligence and other embedded applications. It says more than 10,000 devices have been deployed across nine-plus Indian states and three countries. For its EV business, however, Vanix is taking a different approach from conventional charger manufacturers.

What if an EV Charger Could Upgrade Itself?

Vanix’s four-wheeler product is a Type 2 AC charger designed around AMD’s Zynq adaptive SoC. Unlike a conventional fixed hardware architecture, the Zynq platform combines a processing system with programmable logic, allowing Vanix to modify parts of the charger’s functionality without physically replacing the hardware.

That architecture is central to the company’s proposition. According to Satyanarayana, a customer could initially buy a 7.4 kW charger and later upgrade it to 11 kW or 22 kW through a software-enabled upgrade rather than replacing the entire unit.

The company is also planning over-the-air updates for as long as seven years, with additional protocols and features expected to be introduced as charging standards evolve.

The idea addresses a less visible problem in EV infrastructure: hardware can have a longer physical life than its technology.

A charger installed today may remain operational for several years, while vehicle communication standards, grid-management requirements, security mechanisms and charging expectations continue to change. Vanix is betting that a reconfigurable architecture can extend the useful life of the hardware.

Built For a Grid That Doesn’t Always Behave

Vanix’s argument is particularly relevant to India because charging infrastructure does not operate under uniform conditions.

The company says it designed its charger around variations in temperature, voltage, frequency and electrical infrastructure. Its team tested voltage spikes, drops and load surges internally before sending the charger to the Central Power Research Institute (CPRI) in Bengaluru.

During CPRI testing, Vanix says its charger was subjected to 200 scenarios covering approximately 256 vehicle configurations under IEC 61851-27-1. The company says it cleared the test in its first attempt.

“The charger has to understand the environment it is deployed in—talk to the grid, the vehicle and even neighbouring chargers,” Satyanarayana says during a conversation with AIM.

This becomes increasingly important in apartment complexes, commercial buildings and fleet deployments where multiple chargers may compete for the same electrical capacity.

Vanix is therefore building for load management as much as charging.

Its chargers can monitor the environment and adjust charging behaviour, while optional software features can optimise charging around household load and grid conditions.

Security is Another Part of the Pitch

Vanix is also betting that EV chargers will become an important cybersecurity layer as vehicles become increasingly software-defined.

The charger effectively sits between the electrical grid and the vehicle. That creates a potential attack surface as charging systems become connected to cloud platforms, mobile applications and vehicle communication systems.

The company therefore uses the programmable logic in AMD’s Zynq architecture to provide hardware-level security alongside software security. Satyanarayana said the decision to work with AMD was driven by the need for fast safety processing, multiple sensor inputs, hardware-level encryption and the ability to modify the architecture over time.

Vanix’s relationship with AMD is therefore more than a branding exercise. The startup says AMD helped it select the appropriate chip and supported the technical development of the charger. 

Vanix’s Bet in a Crowded Changing Market

The company is not entering an empty field. India already has established charging hardware companies such as Exicom and Delta Electronics, while Tata Power and other large infrastructure players have built substantial charging networks. Startups including Bolt.Earth are also selling Type 2 AC chargers across the 7.4 kW to 22 kW range.

Bolt.Earth, for instance, offers 11 kW and 22 kW Type 2 AC chargers with features including dynamic load balancing, 4G/Wi-Fi connectivity and OTA support.

Exicom, meanwhile, operates across AC and DC charging and has been scaling its manufacturing footprint. In March, it inaugurated a Hyderabad facility backed by a $24 million investment, doubling its overall production capacity.

Vanix’s differentiation has to come from how much of the hardware can evolve after installation, how reliably that works in difficult grid conditions, and whether customers are willing to pay for that flexibility.

Early Customers Could Offer a Glimpse of Scale

Vanix says its broader product portfolio has customers including Eicher, Sonalika, Luminous, Shanti Sarovar, Aditya Precitech, XYMA Analytics, Gainwell, Micronix, uBreathe, Octarange, Scope, Boson, Photon Energy, IIT Delhi, NIT Andhra Pradesh, NIT Surat and the Indian Army’s Para One programme.

Its website also highlights Luminous and Aditya Precitech among the organisations it works with.

The company’s traction is not limited to its own manufacturing. In August 2025, electronics manufacturer Aimtron Electronics disclosed a ₹4.62 crore order from Vanix for 50,000 IIoT and AI devices. The first production batch was scheduled to begin in October 2025.

That order matters because it offers visibility into Vanix’s ability to move from engineering prototypes to larger-scale manufacturing.

Vanix has also attracted international interest. A June 2026 Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade disclosure records a $0.48 million foreign investment associated with Australian company Metawerk Pty Ltd and Vanix Technologies.

Its funding history, however, appears relatively modest compared with heavily funded EV infrastructure companies. IIT Ropar’s Technology Business Incubator Foundation lists Vanix as a Startup India Seed Fund Scheme winner with ₹1.06 crore in funding. An earlier T-Hub profile records a ₹4.5 lakh TBIF grant and a ₹25 crore valuation at the time of that profile.

Vanix has not publicly disclosed a current revenue figure that can be independently verified, so revenue should be added only if the company provides it directly.

The EV Charger May be Just the First Application

EV charging is currently the most visible application of Vanix’s adaptive hardware architecture, but the company is not building only for mobility.

Its other products include DIGI Khet for agricultural monitoring, MyBovine.ai for livestock intelligence and industrial asset-monitoring systems.

The broader thesis is that intelligence should sit closer to the physical equipment rather than entirely in the cloud.

That puts Vanix in the middle of several expanding markets. For example, one industry estimate cited in connection with its Aimtron partnership puts India’s industrial IoT market at $7.12 billion in 2025 and projects it to reach $15.35 billion by 2029.

The EV charger, in this context, becomes a demonstration of the company’s larger hardware strategy: build a physical system that can sense its environment, process information locally and change its behaviour without requiring a new piece of hardware every time the underlying requirements change.

The Real Test is Commercial Scale

Vanix’s technology proposition is interesting, but the next stage will be about proving the economics.

The company says its 7.4 kW charger is priced broadly in line with the existing market, at around ₹35,000–50,000, despite the additional safety, security and modularity features.

That is important because hardware startups often struggle when technically differentiated products become significantly more expensive than incumbent alternatives.

Vanix is trying to avoid that trade-off.

Its three-year standard warranty, expected five-to-seven-year operating life and planned OTA support are designed to make the charger a longer-lived infrastructure asset rather than a disposable appliance.

The company is now working on a multi-gun charger capable of charging at least three vehicles simultaneously and plans to enter DC charging for two- and three-wheelers around Q1 2027.