Prakash and Pranav Dhandekar, the father-son founders of Wings EV, an Indore-based EV agency, together with their maiden electrical ‘micro-car’ Robin.
The Indian vehicle business will quickly witness a brand new class entrant: an ‘electrical microcar’ christened Robin, a two-seater EV that the makers say, could be as maneuverable as a motorcycle.
Wings EV, an Indore-based agency, based by a father-son duo will unveil Robin in Bengaluru in April 2025 to spice up “private commuting with zero air pollution, much less congestion and fewer street area”, stated Pranav Dandekar, CEO and co-founder.
Mr. Dandekar, a PhD in laptop science and a Stanford College graduate stated, “Robin, has already cleared all security assessments performed by ARAI Pune, to make it safer than any present two or three-wheeler out there. We hope to promote 3000 models within the first 12 months towards the ten,000 annual manufacturing capability of our Indore plant.”
The EV agency has raised funds from numerous traders together with Enterprise Freeway and “a number of high-profile angel traders from India and Silicon Valley,” the CEO stated.
Wings EV has performed consumer analysis in six cities throughout the nation and greater than 300 take a look at drives in Bengaluru, stated Mr. Dandekar, a techie who labored 17 years in Silicon Valley.
Later in 2025, Robin may also be launched in Chennai and Hyderabad or Pune, earlier than the corporate rolls it out nationwide in a brand new format.
‘’We’re planning to begin deliveries in April 2025. The order that at present we’ve in hand provides us a way of what our first batch of manufacturing goes to be. If we discover sufficient volumes in southern markets, we may also take into account establishing a manufacturing unit within the area,” Mr. Dandekar added.
Robin might be out there in three variants: a fundamental non-AC 65 km vary mannequin priced (ex-showroom) at ₹2 lakh (11% greater on street), a mid variant with a fan and 90 km vary at ₹2.5 lakh and a premium variant with a 90 km vary, an AC and patented audio alert methods for enhanced security at ₹3 lakh.
Absolutely loaded, Robin handed 12 levels of climb towards the requirement of seven levels. Most flyovers are within the vary of three/4 levels, Mr. Dandekar stated.
In response to his father Prakash Dandekar, CTO and co-founder of Wings EV, India sells greater than 18 million two wheelers a 12 months. “Within the subsequent 15 to twenty years, a big chunk of two wheeler patrons could transfer to two-seater micro automobiles,’‘ the CTO stated, who previously headed Embedded Methods and Telematics Division at Tata Applied sciences.
Robin is powered by a drive-by-wire powertrain, which is analogous to the fly-by-wire know-how utilized in superior airplanes, he added.
