IIT Delhi-Incubated Startup On Road To Making "Safest" Electric Scooter

"Anyone can glue together some plastics parts, call it EV and sell. But the real work is about making safer electric vehicles that can adapt to Indian driving conditions and be reliable," said Vikas Gupta, who co-founded Creatara Mobility

An electric vehicle start-up incubated by the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi is doing deep research on making safer electric two-wheelers, which the company plans to roll out once their testing is complete.

"Anyone can glue together some plastics parts, call it EV and sell. But the real work is about making safer electric vehicles that can adapt to Indian driving conditions and be reliable," said Vikas Gupta, who co-founded Creatara Mobility Pvt Ltd with Ringlarei Pamei in 2018. Both are alumnus of IIT-Delhi.

Creatara Mobility is making next-generation electric vehicles, which are safer and reliable, the entrepreneur said. "Our goal is to make the world's safest electric two-wheeler," said Mr Gupta, who is using IIT-Delhi's facility called CART Lab to run tests on prototypes. The incubation facility, known as FITT, is also supported by the government's Department of Science and Technology.

Mr Gupta said Creatara Mobility provides multiple failsafe mechanisms, from cell to pack level. "Whatever cells we are using, we are testing them in-house. We have our own standards for grading parameters and sorting, which we developed in-house," he said.