DORLECO Announces Multi-Gun Fast Charging Platform for India's Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Dual-, triple-, and quad-gun charging architecture built to scale charging speed without megawatt-scale infrastructure investment
Pune, India—DORLECO today announced its multi-gun fast charging platform, engineered to serve heavy commercial vehicles—electric buses and trucks—across India. The platform supports dual-, triple-, and quad-gun charging configurations, allowing fleet operators to multiply charging throughput using existing charger infrastructure rather than investing in costly megawatt-scale charging stations.
The Problem
Electric bus and truck batteries are several times larger than passenger vehicle batteries. Standard single-gun fast chargers leave heavy commercial vehicles immobilized for hours, and building megawatt-scale chargers at every depot significantly increases capital costs—making electrification economically difficult for fleet operators to justify at scale.
The Solution: Multi-Gun Charging
DORLECO’s platform allows multiple charging connectors to be used on a single vehicle simultaneously—two, three, or four guns—multiplying charge speed on existing charger infrastructure. The same architecture can also be configured the other way: one charging cabinet serving multiple vehicles side-by-side. Either way, the result is more energy delivered per hour, per rupee, and per square meter of depot space—without the infrastructure spend of a megawatt charger.
None of this is possible without intelligence on the vehicle side, which is where DORLECO’s platform operates.
DORLECO’s Deliverables
- ToughCase VCUs: Vehicle controllers that manage multi-gun charging sessions, with current balancing, thermal protection, and safety redundancy across every connector in use.
- Fast Charging Software: Communication stack handling vehicle-charger handshakes, current optimization, and real-time fault detection across dual-, triple-, and quad-gun configurations.
- EVSE & V2G Simulator: A hardware-in-the-loop validation platform that tests multi-gun charging behavior before physical charging hardware exists.
Built for Heavy Commercial Vehicles
The platform is purpose-built for the duty cycles of India’s heavy commercial vehicle segment—electric buses and trucks that need to return to service quickly and cannot tolerate long depot dwell times. It is engineered for Indian operating conditions, including high ambient temperatures and variable grid infrastructure.
Future-Proofed for What Comes Next
DORLECO’s controllers are designed with headroom beyond today’s multi-gun deployments: the same platform is capable of supporting pantograph charging and megawatt charging as that infrastructure becomes available in India, allowing fleet operators to adopt the platform now without being locked out of higher-power charging standards later.
“Engineered in Pune. Built for Indian roads, Indian heat, and Indian economics,” said DORLECO’s team. “Make in India isn’t a sticker—it’s why this technology stays affordable at scale.”
About DORLECO
DORLECO provides embedded systems, control software, and validation platforms for commercial vehicle electrification. Headquartered in Pune, the company specializes in vehicle control units and real-time software stacks tailored for India’s operating environment.