Revolt founder Rahul Sharma, who had earlier founded mobile phone maker Micromax, launched India’s first artificial intelligence (AI)- enabled electric motorcycle called
RV 400 on Tuesday.
The RV 400 can be started with a swipe on your mobile phone and can be charged at home. The company claims the motorcycle will give you a range of 156 kilometres. The price of this motorcycle will be revealed on June 25.
“We have already thought about what are the problem points, pain-points in the adoption of electric vehicle (EV) in this country. Number one was the design and performance. If you see the design and see the performance, our team has just completely nailed it. The product looks beautiful and it is aspirational and it is stunning,” Sharma told CNBC-TV18.
“About the charging infrastructure, there are four different ways you can charge this product at your home. One is easy onboard charging which is normal 15-ampere socket, you can just plug in and you can charge it. Number two is the battery is portable. You can take out the battery, charge it at your home, come back in the morning, put it back and go. Third – we are using swapping stations. So if you are not able to charge it at your home, go to our swapping stations change your battery, it takes two minutes. Four is if you are not able to go just press a button, somebody will come from our team and deliver a battery at your home,” said Revolt founder Rahul Sharma.
In terms of infrastructure in setting up the charging stations, Sharma said, “Our total capex in this whole project is going to be around Rs 400-500 crore. the production capacity right now at Manesar plant is one lakh twenty thousand bikes on an yearly basis, so that is in phase-I. Let us see what sort of response do we get. If we get more, certainly it is a good problem to have.”
First Published: Jun 19, 2019 9:24 AM IST