MANDATE
ONE STANDARD.

ZEPH NEW ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE

House 86 (5th Floor), Road 17A, Block E, Banani 1213, Dhaka

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Honourable Prime Minister,

We write with respectful congratulations on your historic election victory on 12 February 2026 and your assumption of office as Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Bangladesh on 17 February 2026. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party's two-thirds parliamentary majority represents a powerful mandate for change, and the confidence of the Bangladeshi people in your leadership is a responsibility that we as members of the private sector are committed to supporting.

We write today not merely to congratulate, but to place before you an urgent, high-impact, zero-cost policy decision that your new government can make in its earliest days — one that will directly catalyse billions of taka in private sector investment, create thousands of jobs, reduce Bangladesh's fossil fuel import bill, and demonstrate decisive, modern leadership to international investors and development partners.

That decision is the formal adoption of a single national EV charging standard: CCS2 (Combined Charging System Type 2, IEC 62196-3) for DC fast charging, and Type 2 (IEC 62196-2) for AC charging, mandated for all electric vehicles and all public charging infrastructure in Bangladesh from the date of gazette notification.

I. Why This Decision Is Yours to Make — and Why Now

Bangladesh's previous administration developed an EV Charging Guideline in 2022 and a Draft National EV Policy in 2025, but neither document mandated a single connector standard. This gap — a small but fatal regulatory omission — has frozen private investment in public charging infrastructure. Today, Bangladesh has only 14 public EV charging stations nationwide. Thailand, which adopted CCS2 as its national standard in 2022, now has 3,720 charging stations. India, which mandated CCS2 the same year, has exceeded 10,000 CCS2 public chargers.

Your new government inherits this deficit. But it also inherits the opportunity to fix it with a single gazette notification. No legislation is required. No budget allocation is needed. The Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges, working with BERC and BRTA, can issue the necessary SRO and regulatory circulars within 90 days of your directive. What is needed is political will — and that is precisely what your two-thirds majority provides.

II. The Standard We Are Requesting: CCS2

CCS2 is the Combined Charging System Type 2, defined under IEC 62196-3 and communicating via the ISO 15118 smart charging protocol. It combines AC and DC charging in a single connector — eliminating the need for separate plugs for home and public charging. It supports up to 350 kW DC fast charging and, crucially, supports Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) capability under ISO 15118-20, enabling EV batteries to return solar energy to the national grid.

CCS2 is the connector on every Chinese-manufactured EV exported to South and Southeast Asia — including BYD, Leapmotor, Chery, SAIC, Dongfeng, and JAC. Mandating CCS2 aligns Bangladesh with its entire EV supply chain. There is no friction. No cost. No compromise.

III. The Cost of Not Deciding: Bangladesh's 14-Station Problem

Bangladesh currently has only 14 public EV charging stations across the entire country. This is not a market failure. It is a regulatory failure left by the previous government — and one this new government can resolve with a single gazette notification. Charging station investors — both domestic entrepreneurs and international infrastructure companies — have confirmed to us that they are ready to invest, but will not do so without a mandated standard. The reason is simple: if you invest BDT 30–50 lakh to install a CCS2 charger and the government later mandates GB/T, your investment is worthless. Without a government signal, rational investors wait.

The government of Bangladesh has itself set a target of 12,000 public charging stations by 2030 and 30 percent EV penetration. These targets are unachievable without a mandated standard. Every month of delay is approximately 100 charging stations and hundreds of crores of investment that do not materialise.

IV. What Neighbouring Governments Did — and What Happened

The evidence is unambiguous: every country in South and Southeast Asia that mandated CCS2 saw immediate and dramatic acceleration of charging infrastructure investment and EV adoption. Bangladesh has done neither — and has consequently achieved neither.

V. Six Specific Actions We Request of Your Government

We wish to be clear: none of these six actions requires Parliamentary approval, new legislation, or any budget expenditure. They are all within existing executive and regulatory authority. Your government can deliver all six within 90 days of this letter.

VI. What This Unlocks for Bangladesh

• Investment unlock — USD 360–600 million in private charging infrastructure, currently paused awaiting this single regulatory signal. At 12,000 stations by 2030 × USD 30–50k each, the total private investment mobilised exceeds half a billion dollars.
• OEM alignment — Alignment with every Chinese EV OEM exporting to South Asia: BYD, Leapmotor, Dongfeng, JAC, Chery, SAIC. Your government's EV manufacturing ambitions depend on these OEMs; CCS2 is their international standard.
• Climate and NDC — Direct progress toward the 30% EV adoption target by 2030 and the NDC commitment to cut transport-sector carbon by 3.39 million tonnes.
• BRTC fleet — The 100 BRTC electric-bus pilot, currently in procurement, can be specified with CCS2 so that depot charging built today serves the national public network tomorrow.
• Solar-EV integration — CCS2's ISO 15118-20 protocol enables V2G: electric buses and EVs returning solar energy to the grid during peak demand. This is Bangladesh's solar programme integrated with clean transport.
• DFI financing — Development finance institutions (ADB, IFC, AIIB, World Bank) assess regulatory clarity as a prerequisite for clean-transport financing. A gazetted CCS2 standard immediately improves Bangladesh's investability score.

VII. Our Pledge to the New Government

• Immediate deployment — We will begin deployment of CCS2 charging infrastructure across Dhaka and major corridors within 60 days of the gazette notification.
• Technical support — We will provide full technical support to SREDA, BERC, BRTA, and BSTI in drafting the standard adoption documents — at no cost to the government.
• Industry alignment — We will mobilise BEAM's member companies — importers, manufacturers, operators — to align their product specifications with the gazetted standard within the 12-month transition period.
• Investment forum — We will host an annual Bangladesh EV and Clean Mobility Investment Forum, bringing Chinese OEM partners, development finance institutions, and international charging operators to meet your government's investment promotion team.

Honourable Prime Minister, the people of Bangladesh voted for change and for a better economic future on 12 February 2026. Clean mobility — electric buses replacing diesel, solar-powered charging replacing imported fuel, a domestic EV industry replacing vehicle imports — is part of that future. Your government has the mandate, the majority, and the moment. We ask only for one gazette notification to unlock it.

We remain, Honourable Prime Minister, your most respectfully and loyally,