Green Roads Ahead: Decoding India’s EV and Digital Infrastructure ft. Akhil Jayaprakash & Arun Vinayak

Worldwide, roads are increasingly seeing the presence of electric vehicles (EV) and India is expected to take 30% of the EV market worldwide. However, these tailwinds are attracting many players to the EV ecosystem, from suppliers to customers, to make EVs a reality on the road.

In order to ease the challenges that these stakeholders could face in coming together, Digitial Public Infrastructure could have a key role to play and could help:

• Reduce frictions

• Enable greater customer experience

• Drive better adoption for electrical vehicles in India, especially when it comes to the charging experience

To learn more about India's burgeoning EV market and understand whether the promise of DPI can enable the EV market to solve some of its current challenges, in this episode of Decoding Impact Rathish Balakrishnan is joined by Akhil Jayaprakash, co-founder at Pulse Energy, and Arun Vinayak, co-founder at Exponent Energy. Through this discussion Akhil and Arun share their expertise to help us understand who the key stakeholders are in the EV market, what is the user experience when it comes to EV today in India, and what unification using DPI could look like in the EV market.

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• Decoding Account Aggregators with Shalini Gupta

• Decoding India’s DPI Learnings for the Global South with Prof. S Rajagopalan

• Decoding Digital Public Goods & Digital Public Infrastructure with Dr. Pramod Varma

Guest: Akhil Jayaprakash and Arun Vinayak

Host: Rathish Balakrishnan

Producer: Meenakshi Iyer

Produced by: Pickle Jar Media

Chapters

00:00 - Precap

01:30 - Welcome

01:43 - Topic and Guest Intro

03:28 - Akhil & Arun's journey into the EV ecosystem

08:21 - The key players in EV

11:41 - What a vertically integrated stack looks like

12:32 - The EV Market

15:51 - Summarising insights on the EV market & players

17:07- Approaching the new world with an old world mental model

26:36 - Challenges in the charging EVs

30:22 - Access to EV for different vehicles

35:45 - Understanding the user experience of the EV charging infrastructure

41:13 - Moving past the obvious solutions

48:39 - Summary and further understanding of how to solve for charging anxiety

59:10 - Achieving unification through a DPI approach

01:06:58 - Where can unification unlock value

01:10:05 - Imagining the end game

01:16:31 - Wishlist for scaling EV infrastructure in India

01:20:29 - Summary & Thanks

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