Home chargers by car.

The Nexon EV is the most common electric car in Indian apartment basements, and most owners never think about their charger until the bundled one becomes a problem. Here is what the car actually needs.

Before you pick a wallbox for the Punch EV, check which variant you bought. Tata sells the car with two different onboard chargers, and the wrong wallbox purchase wastes ₹25,000.

The Tiago EV has the smallest battery of any mainstream electric car in India, which changes the charger question completely. For some owners the honest answer is that a wallbox is optional. Here is how to tell which owner you are.

The Curvv EV now ships with the 55 kWh pack only, after Tata dropped the 45 kWh variants in the SeriesX update. It is the biggest battery Tata puts in a car, and it is large enough that charger maths starts to matter.

The Windsor is India's best-selling EV in several recent months, and it has the most confusing charger situation of any of them. Whether you need to buy a wallbox at all depends on your exact variant. Two minutes here saves a wrong purchase.

The ZS EV is heading into run-out as MG transitions to the S5 EV, but tens of thousands of them are on Indian roads with years of life left. If you own one, or found a run-out deal, the charging picture is stable and well understood.

The XUV400 is quietly leaving Mahindra's line-up as the BE 6 takes over, but it remains a solidly engineered EV and used examples are moving at strong discounts. Charging it well is simple, because Mahindra fitted the same 7.2 kW AC hardware across the range.

Mahindra made an unusual call with the BE 6: the car ships without a charger. The 7.3 kW wallbox costs about ₹50,000 extra and the 11.2 kW unit about ₹75,000, billed separately from the car. You can opt out of both. That opt-out is worth taking, and here is the maths.

The XEV 9e shares its battery packs, its 11.2 kW onboard charger, and Mahindra's charger-sold-separately policy with the BE 6. What changes is the buyer: this is a family flagship, often the household's only car, doing school runs on weekdays and 600 km highway days in the holidays. That usage pattern makes the charger decision sharper.

Hyundai did two things right with the Creta Electric: an 11 kW onboard charger, rare at this price, and a bundled home wallbox. The complication is that what Hyundai bundles has varied by variant and by model year, and the difference between the two wallboxes is nearly an hour of charging.

BYD handles the Atto 3 buyer well: a 7 kW wallbox is bundled with the car, dealer-installed, along with a portable unit that doubles for V2L. If that installation covers where your car actually sleeps, you need nothing else. This page is for the situations it does not cover.