GOME EV Station builds premium charging destinations along India's highways — fast, solar-powered charging paired with a café, retail and clean rest amenities. Not just a charger. A reason to stop.
Over 4 million EVs are already on Indian roads, growing at ~28.5% a year. The charging network hasn't kept pace — leaving a large, real gap along the routes people actually drive.
See the Market CaseA GOME station is engineered as a highway rest stop. While the car charges, drivers eat, shop, freshen up and relax under a solar canopy. That mix is what keeps a site busy — and what turns charging into a business with a dozen ways to earn.
How stations earnABB Terra DC chargers from 50 kW to 180 kW, with power that scales to plot size and load.
A BAPSULE-built café pod turns dwell time into daily footfall and repeat visits.
Mini-mart, essentials and rentable brand space alongside the charging bays.
On-site generation trims the tariff and shades the forecourt — every station, standard.
Urban & town entry point
Highway corridor workhorse
Flagship highway hub
Payback figures are stabilised-year targets on client-owned land and depend heavily on site utilisation — they're planning estimates, not guaranteed returns. See the full basis on the Franchise page.
We don't reinvent the hardware — we integrate the best of it, then run it well.
DC fast-charging hardware & connected-services layer — the core hardware every GOME bay is built on.
ABB supplies the DC fast-charging hardware for GOME stations — the Terra range of chargers that pairs with our AARGO EV Smart CPO software and Waaree solar canopies to deliver a single integrated charging bay. ABB also runs a "Connected Services" software layer on top of the hardware.
North American HQ / Center of Excellence in E-Mobility — Montréal, Québec (2023). ISO 9001 · ISO 14001 · OHSAS 18001 certified.
Standard DC fast charger
Next-gen high-power
Fleets & multi-unit dwellings
Dealerships, offices, homes
Best-fit for GOME PRO's 120 kW bay is a Terra 124; GOME MAX's 180 kW bay maps to the Terra 184 — confirm current SKU/pricing directly with ABB or its distributor before lock-in.
100–350 kW · sequential charging of up to 3 buses · CCS / OCPP compliant.
100–600 kW · automated rooftop connection · 3–6 minute charge times · IEC 61851-23.
24/7/365 monitoring via a Network Operation Center, running on Microsoft Azure.
Back-office integration, diagnostics/call-center support, dynamic demand-response.
Status, stats, access management and troubleshooting web tools.
RFID, smartphone, PIN and credit card module support.
Configurable SLAs covering proactive monitoring & remote diagnosis, certified service teams, preventive/corrective maintenance, OTA software updates, training programs and case tracking. ABB monitors 100+ parameters per charger via a redundant, geographically separated server setup — available across the entire product line.
This confirms and updates the earlier 2013 ABB brochure — the OCPP/Connected Services stack is now Azure-based and more mature.
AARGO's ">95% uptime, 24/7 NOC" pitch mirrors ABB's own NOC/Charger Care language almost exactly.
AARGO's DC Fast + AC, OCPP-compliant chargers map directly onto ABB's Terra family.
Which Terra models (54/94/124/184/HP) AARGO deploys, and whether they hold a formal Charger Care SLA.
Terra 124 (120kW) or Terra 184 (180kW) likely fits the M-CAR ₹20L charger line — confirm SKU & pricing before lock-in.
Kept for historical context; superseded by the 2023 portfolio above.
Split into two tiers depending on network size and use case:
| Public use | Closed community (fleet/office) | |
|---|---|---|
| Large network | Connectivity APIs: OCPP API, Real-time status API, Support API | — |
| Small network | Web solutions: Driver Care + Payment modules | Web solutions: Operator Pro module |
ABB is also developing APIs for power management, smart grid, and demand-response.
Three packages, each bundling different modules:
| Module | Operator Pro | Driver Care | Payment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Status | ✔ | ✔ | ✘ |
| Statistics | ✔ | ✔ | ✘ |
| Configuration | ✔ | ✔ | ✘ |
| Advanced statistics | ✔ | ✘ | ✘ |
| Access management (RFID/PIN) | ✔ | ✘ | ✘ |
| Cases (troubleshooting) | ✘ | ✔ | ✘ |
| Notifications (e.g. emergency-button alerts) | ✘ | ✔ | ✘ |
| Payment management | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ |
Sources: ABB E-mobility Product Portfolio brochure (2023, North American Center of Excellence) for the current company/product/software info above; ABB EV Charging Infrastructure "Connected Services" product brochure (2013) for the legacy reference section. Treat product names, APIs, and pricing as illustrative — confirm current SKUs and terms directly with ABB or its distributor.
Factory-built café & retail pods — turning charging dwell time into daily footfall at every GOME bay.
BAPSULE (Blacxird Industries, Chennai) supplies the factory-built pods that anchor the "hospitality" side of a GOME station — a single shell, manufactured off-site to a standardised spec, that drops onto the forecourt and opens for business the same week. Positioned as a deployable-infrastructure company, not a prefab-cabin company: no local civil work, no long build timeline.
Coffee & quick-bite kiosk
Grab-and-go bakery counter
Essentials & travel snacking
Wi-Fi work-stop while charging
BAPSULE's full catalogue also covers Juice & Smoothie, Pharmacy Point, Beauty Studio and Courier & Parcel formats — same shell, different fit-out — for stations that want more than one earner on the forecourt.
Factory-built and delivered ready to open — days, not months, from order to trading.
Drops onto a prepared pad — no foundation, no on-site construction crew.
The same shell can move to a better-performing site if a location underperforms.
BIS & AIS 138 compliant, ISO 9001 build process, Made-in-India PLI eligible.
BAPSULE is a Blacxird Industries venture based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu — the same group building GOME. Certifications held: BIS, AIS 138, IEC 62619, ISO 9001, with Made-in-India PLI eligibility.
Source: BAPSULE brand & product materials as shared internally. bapsule.in is a client-rendered app that couldn't be pulled directly for this page — confirm current specs, pricing and lead times directly with BAPSULE before quoting them externally.
Full-stack EV Charging Point Operator (CPO) powering GOME's CPO software layer · OCPP 1.6 / 2.0
AARGO EV Smart is a full-stack EV Charging Point Operator in India — owning, operating, and managing charging infrastructure for public users, commercial fleets, and site partners across 30 cities. Its sister company, AAR Power Solution, brings 10+ years of electrical automation expertise that feeds into AARGO's upstream infrastructure work.
Plus advisors Hitender Vigamal and Mohit Bhati, and Shiv Kumar Sharma (Project & Customer Success).
Industry-wide pain points: high capex, DISCOM delays, poor uptime.
Notable highway corridors: Delhi–Agra, Delhi–Bheemtal, Delhi–Katra.
Notably just won a contract with Radisson Blu for CPO deployment across 250+ locations.
Incorporation & first charger.
First fleet client, Silent Birds.
Expanded to 4 more cities.
~1,000 monthly sessions.
Car charging — CAPEX breakdown (₹75L total, excl. land)
| Component | ₹ Lakh |
|---|---|
| DC Fast Charger (120 kW, CCS2×2) | 20 |
| Transformer 200 kVA + panel/metering | 12 |
| Solar carport (25 kWp) | 12 |
| Civil works (3 bays) | 8 |
| Canopy/steel structure | 6 |
| OCPP + app + RFID + CCTV | 4 |
| Office + washroom | 3 |
| Approvals/NOCs | 5 |
| Contingency | 5 |
Key assumptions: 35 kWh/session, sell ₹16/kWh, buy grid ₹8/kWh, 37,500 kWh/yr solar generation, ₹15L/yr fixed opex.
Returns — Low / Mid / High (20 / 35 / 50 cars per day)
| Metric | Low | Mid | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue (₹L) | 40.9 | 71.5 | 102.2 |
| EBITDA (₹L) | 8.4 | 23.8 | 39.1 |
| ROI (EBITDA/Capex) | 11.3% | 31.7% | 52.1% |
| Payback | 8.9 yrs | 3.2 yrs | 1.9 yrs |
Heavier-duty variant at the same ₹75L cap: 240 kW ultra-fast charger (₹33L), 315 kVA transformer (₹16L), heavy civil (₹10L), no solar/storage at this budget tier. Assumptions: 180 kWh/session, sell ₹13/kWh, buy grid ₹8/kWh, ₹15L/yr fixed opex.
Returns — Low / Mid / High (5 / 8 / 12 buses per day)
| Metric | Low | Mid | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue (₹L) | 42.7 | 68.3 | 102.5 |
| EBITDA (₹L) | 1.4 | 11.3 | 24.4 |
| ROI | 1.9% | 15.0% | 32.6% |
| Payback | 52.6 yrs | 6.6 yrs | 3.1 yrs |
Bottom line: the car franchise is the materially better risk/return bet at this budget — its "Low" case pays back in under 9 years, versus the bus franchise's 52.6-year low case.
Remaining fund use: 20% salaries, 9% sales & marketing, ~4% rent/misc, <1% software.
Roadmap: 30 stations (months 1–3) → ~230 locations across North India (month 18) → Southern expansion (month 36) → IPO-ready (month 60).
Exit options: IPO, strategic M&A, secondary sale, or share buyback.
Figures above are drawn from AARGO EV Smart's own investor presentation and are their representations, not independently verified by GOME.
Solar canopy generation — the roof over every GOME bay pulls double duty as a power plant.
Waaree Energies supplies the solar canopy structures over GOME's charging bays — shading vehicles while generating power that offsets grid draw for the ABB Terra chargers underneath. Founded in 1989, Waaree is India's largest solar module & cell manufacturer and a listed (NSE-traded) company, giving the canopy layer of a GOME station a bankable, Tier-1 supplier behind it rather than a local fabricator.
Listed on the NSE (WAAREEENER); ranked a Tier 1 module manufacturer by Bloomberg NEF for 35+ consecutive quarters.
Elevated PV structure over the charging bays — shade for vehicles, power for the chargers.
High-efficiency panel technology suited to the sustained peak output a forecourt canopy needs.
Waaree's own EPC arm designs, supplies and commissions the canopy — one vendor, one warranty.
Group also builds BESS & inverters, so a station can add on-site storage later without a new vendor.
AARGO's own ₹75L single-vehicle franchise model already lines up a 25 kWp solar carport at ₹12L of the ₹75L capex, feeding an assumed 37,500 kWh/yr of generation — Waaree is the natural supplier for that carport line item, and its own EPC/turnkey capability can quote and install it as a single package alongside the canopy steel structure.
Source: Waaree Energies' public company disclosures (investor materials, exchange filings, company site) as of early-to-mid 2026 — capacity and ranking figures move quickly as new plants come online, so confirm current numbers, canopy specs and pricing directly with Waaree before quoting them externally.
I had land on a busy state highway doing nothing. GOME handled the build end to end — the café brings in walk-ins even when the bays are quiet.
The 90/10 split and the 24/7 monitoring were what sold me. I run the site, they keep the chargers up. Uptime has been genuinely strong.
From enquiry to go-live took about five months. The retail rent and advertising income were things I hadn't even factored into my plan.
Partner names and locations shown here are illustrative examples for this preview, not real testimonials.
Have land on a highway or busy corridor? Let's see what it could become.
We're not the thirteenth operator competing on the price of electricity. GOME is a turnkey, solar-integrated charging company that leads with engineering, hospitality and a network partners actually want to join.
GOME EV Station is operated by Straight Corner LLP out of Chennai, Tamil Nadu. We design, build and run premium EV charging destinations along India's highways and busy corridors — each one a genuine rest stop with a café, retail, clean washrooms and a solar canopy overhead.
The idea is simple: a charger on its own is a utility. Wrap it in a place people are happy to stop, and it becomes a business — one that keeps earning long after the car drives away.
India needs roughly 1.3 million public chargers by 2030 but had only about 27,700 installed as of early 2026 — close to a 40× shortfall. That gap, along the routes people actually drive, is the whole opportunity.
On policy: the central PM E-DRIVE scheme supports charging infrastructure and can cover a meaningful share of eligible cost — but it's category-based, capped and subject to sanction, not a guaranteed blanket discount. Every GOME model is built to work on charging economics alone, with subsidy treated as upside.
A partner brings the site and the capital. We bring everything else — hardware, brand, software, build and operations — delivered as a single package.
ABB Terra DC chargers from 50 kW to 180 kW, plus solar canopy and battery-ready design — the reliable core of every station.
AARGO EV Smart runs charge-point management on OCPP 1.6 / 2.0, with the driver app, payments and the brand that pulls traffic to your bays.
We handle investment structuring, EPC and day-to-day operations — from the first site survey to a live, earning station and beyond.
We're scaling deliberately — proving corridors in the south before opening the metros, then the national highways.
Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Telangana — a dense corridor network on home ground.
Maharashtra, Gujarat and Delhi NCR — connecting the country's highest-traffic routes.
The long-haul arteries — NH44, NH48 and NH6 — stitched into one national network.
Once a station is live, it's monitored, maintained and marketed as part of the network. Chargers are watched around the clock; issues are caught before drivers notice them.
See the Franchise ModelLive network monitoring, every station, every hour.
Preventive maintenance keeps uptime above 95%.
Certification for the people who run your site.
Network-wide promotion that drives traffic to your bays.
Whether you have a site, capital, or both — there's a way in.
Bring a site and the capital; we design, build and run the rest. A GOME franchise puts you at the front of India's EV build-out — with charging as the anchor and a dozen ways to earn around it.
Everything a first-time operator worries about — hardware, software, build quality, downtime — is handled by the network. You focus on the site and the customers.
The split runs firmly in the franchise partner's favour — you keep the large majority of station profit.
Charging is the anchor at roughly 40% of a mature site — café, retail, advertising and more make up the rest.
One contract, one point of contact — enquiry to a live, earning station in about 16–22 weeks.
Urban & town entry point
Highway corridor workhorse
Flagship highway hub
| Specification | GOME PLUS | GOME PRO | GOME MAX |
|---|---|---|---|
| Station investment (CAPEX) | ₹50L | ₹75L | ₹1Cr+ |
| DC charging power | 50 kW | 120 kW | 180 kW |
| Charging bays | 4 | 4–6 | 6–8 + bus bay |
| Solar canopy | Included | Included | Included |
| Amenities | Café, washrooms | Café, retail, rest | Full hospitality plaza |
| Best fit | City edge / feeder | Highway corridor | Highway / fleet hub |
| Payback target* | ~4.0 years | ~3.2 years | ~2.5 years |
*Payback and return figures are stabilised-year, target-case estimates on client-owned land. They depend heavily on charger utilisation and local factors, and are planning projections — not a guarantee. See the note under Returns.
The entry package is separate from your station CAPEX. It's what brings you into the GOME network — the brand, the systems, the training and the ongoing support that make a first station work.
Brand, systems & onboarding into the network.
Security deposit, returned per agreement terms.
Certification for you and your on-site staff.
Charging anchors the site at roughly 40% of mature-site revenue. The rest comes from the hospitality and services built around it — which is what makes the economics work even when the bays aren't full.
Partners who prove out a site can climb the ladder — from a single station to development rights across a region, a state, or the country.
If you'd rather not operate, put your land to work. Choose the arrangement that suits you — we handle the rest.
Lease your site to GOME for a fixed monthly rent. Zero operating involvement, predictable income.
Share in the station's top line. Upside as the site grows, without running it day to day.
Partner on the bottom line. Highest alignment for a site with strong long-term potential.
We understand your site, capital and goals, and confirm fit.
Survey, load study and tier recommendation for your plot.
Onboarding, EPC and installation — hardware, solar and amenities.
Commissioning, staff training and a station on the network.
Live monitoring of every charger on the network.
Preventive maintenance and rapid fault response.
Certification for you and your on-site team.
Network promotion that drives traffic to your bays.
That's the target case. The single biggest variable is how heavily your chargers get used — a well-placed, anchored site behaves very differently from a quiet one. We underwrite conservatively and treat the headline figures as upside, not a plan.
Request a Site ProjectionTell us where you are and what you're working with. We'll come back with the tier that fits and an honest, site-specific view of the numbers.
