“Charge time and battery life is what we’re known for today, but our larger vision to deliver a 360-degree simplified energy experience – from how easy it is to find a charger, to the seamlessness and reliability of the mating experience and to how payments just work. This charger is the first step towards that.” Arun Vinayak, Co-founder & CEO of Exponent Energy
Bengaluru-based energy tech startup Exponent Energy has unveiled its next-generation charging station, code-named P4, powered by its 15-minute rapid charging technology. With this launch, Exponent sets a new benchmark for EV infrastructure, redefining both design and engineering in India and beyond.
The new charger integrates three key innovations:
- Conventional EV charging stations are bulky and box-like. Exponent’s P4 charging station has been reimagined as a wall, reducing its width to just 400 mm and running along the length of the parked vehicle. This design ensures far better space utilization, which is vital in dense cities.
- EV charging cables and connectors globally are heavy and hard to handle. Exponent’s custom-designed 3-axis cable management system solves that problem. The cable floats, effectively reducing the weight to near zero, and automatically retracts.
- Exponent was the first company in the world to launch offboard battery cooling unveiled in 2023, pumping coolant in through the connector to the vehicle. The new charger adds offboard battery heating, allowing it to pre-heat and cool the battery inside the vehicle, ensuring rapid charging and longer life in any environment.
Space utilization, unwieldy cables and managing battery temperatures are challenges for EV charging around the world. For its new charger, Exponent set out to solve all these problems through intelligent design and engineering – not only for rapid charging, but for any kind of EV charging.
Commenting on the launch, Arun Vinayak, Co-founder & CEO of Exponent Energy, said, “At Exponent everything starts from design thinking. Design is not about aesthetics, but about re-thinking everything from a 1st principles basis to deliver better on Engineering and Economics. We made a conscious decision to launch our earlier charger as an MVP to learn from the field about real-world usage and challenges. We brought all those learnings together in the new charger. Charge time and battery life is what we’re known for today, but our larger vision to deliver a 360-degree simplified energy experience – from how easy it is to find a charger, to the seamlessness and reliability of the mating experience and to how payments just work. This charger is the first step towards that.”
The charger delivers up to 40 kW of power and is already being deployed in cities across India, to be used by OEM partners such as Murugappa Group’s Montra Electric, Omega Seiki Mobility, and others, accelerating rapid adoption across both passenger and commercial EV segments.
