Written by Raza Sikander, creator of EV Grids. Last updated 18 August 2026.
About 350 km on NH48, typically one DC stop for 300–450 km class cars starting at 90%, sometimes zero for long-range SUVs that keep speed sane. The useful planning question is not ‘can I?’ — it is ‘which stop still has a gun?’
Krishnagiri and Vellore-side charging is the usual belt. Reverse the names for Chennai → Bangalore; Krishnagiri still clogs on weekends.
Filter 50 kW+ and prefer multi-gun sites on EV Grids. If live counts show busy, take the backup 5–10 km along the same highway. Do not wait 40 minutes to save a theoretical ₹80.
Leave early. This corridor rewards dawn more than it rewards a 150 kW marketing sticker.
Tamil Nadu/Karnataka summer afternoons add Wh/km. If you commute this monthly, save a real efficiency number from the car and reuse it. The vehicle preset is a starting point.
If this is your first interstate EV trip, it is a better exam than Goa. Still select backups. Still start high. Then try Bangalore → Mysore as a warm-up the week before if you are nervous.
90% start, 20% reserve, 30% search threshold, CCS2 filter, 50 kW minimum if you hate slow guns. Recalibrate Wh/km after one commute-speed run on NH48. Compare Bangalore → Chennai with Chennai → Bangalore as separate plans if you are staying overnight — Sunday return traffic is not Saturday outbound.
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