EV Special 2021
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From scooter rental to EV player: How Bounce morphed to survive the pandemic
Sequoia- and Accel-backed scooter-rental startup Bounce is morphing into a full stack EV player. Can it pounce on the big opportunity?
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Altigreen: Ex-Nasa engineer's purpose built EVs for India
Starting with fit-and-forget kits to convert any vehicle into a hybrid, Amitabh Saran's Altigreen Propulsion Labs is now a full EV OEM, with eyes on tapping the Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America markets
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Can Ultraviolette Automotive deliver a high-performance EV motorcycle?
The Bengaluru based EV startup will launch the commercial version of its first all-electric performance bike soon, which the founders believe will beat the best of the petrol-powered motorcycles
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Okinawa to Gurugram: How the man behind Honda Activa built India's 2nd largest EV scooter brand
Jeetender Sharma travelled across India to understand customer niggles with EVs before setting shop in 2015. Now his company, Okinawa scooters is the second biggest EV scooter maker by volume
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Tata Motors: The phoenix building India's electric play
The Tata group company has in recent years scripted a fairytale turnaround to become India's third-largest carmaker. It has also quietly been powering up in the EV space. Will its first-mover advantage pay off?
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Log 9 Materials Scientific: Building aluminium fuel cells to solve fast-charging for EVs
While the aluminium cell concept is more than half a century old, and was first developed in the US for military and space applications, founder Akshay Singhal says Log 9 is developing a method to replenish the aluminium and use it like a fuel
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Ion Energy: Building the tech backbone for electric vehicles
Akhil Aryan and Alexandre Collet recognised a crucial gap in the Indian EV market and embarked upon building advanced electronics, battery management systems, and predictive analytics platforms especially for electric vehicles
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Lohum Cleantech: Recycling EV batteries
Harvard Business School graduates and close friends Rajat Verma and Justin Lemmon are working on closing the supply chain loop in the electric vehicle market by reclaiming raw materials from lithium-ion batteries, and could go on to give a second-life to used batteries in the future
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How Tata Motors is making giant leaps in India's electric vehicle journey
Tata Motors has had an eventful few years—from scripting a turnaround and a 10% passenger car market share to readying itself for the EV revolution. Subscribe to Forbes India for early access to the cover story