Electric Vehicles

Autobot India, an EV tech learning company, has established The Autobot Academy to develop engineering talent for the growing electric vehicle market in India.

Bengaluru-based couple Dinkar and Madhumita Agarwal have built an e-bike with indigenously sourced parts, a range of 200 km on a single charge and a maximum speed of 100 km

We speak to Vivekananda Hallekere of Bounce, a Bengaluru-based electric mobility startup, which launched its first consumer electric scooter, Bounce Infinity E1. It comes with a unique ‘battery as a service’ option for consumers.

Strap: A low-cost electric vehicle startup, Royal EV was launched by Vishwanath Kari from Visakhapatnam. He has since sold 2000 of his innovative batteries.

BatteryPool, a Pune-based EV startup founded by Stanford graduate Ashwin Shankar, provides IoT-enabled smart swapping stations that swap batteries in just two minutes.

Professor U Pruthviraj, the Head of E-Mobility Projects at the Centre for System Design at NITK, Surathkal, and his team of students have built the VidhYug 4.0 e-bike that forest guards can use to monitor their surroundings.

Bhopal-based electric mobility startup, Enigma Automobiles by Anmol and Alankrit Bohre, is on the cusp of launching the Café Racer e-bike — targeting youth passionate about riding hi-tech performance bikes.

Launched earlier this year, Bengaluru startup MetroRide is an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven electric mobility platform and a first and last mile ride hauling service that connects you from metro stations to high frequency destinations.

K A B Menon launched Aravind Automobiles, under which he made the Aravind Baby Model 3, the country's first Made in India car, which his grandson is now looking to revive.

Over and above the subsidies/incentives that the Union government provides, here's what some States are offering to speed up the adoption of electric vehicles.