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Chetan Maini’s passion for sustainable mobility started 30 years ago, when he was part of the University of Michigan Solar Car team that stood first in the race across the US and came 3rd in the World Solar Challenge in Australia. Since then, he has been relentlessly working on making electric vehicles affordable. Chetan had launched ‘Reva’, India’s most affordable electric car which went on to become the world’s best-selling electric car at one point of time, selling in over 24 countries. In 2013 (then Mahindra Reva), it had reached new heights when it was named as one of the Top 50 Most Innovative Companies by the Fast Company magazine.
In 2017, Uday Khemka, promoter of SUN Group and Chetan Maini joined hands to realize their shared vision of making electric mobility affordable and accessible to masses and formed SUN Mobility. SUN Mobility is a joint venture between the Maini Group and the SUN Group. This partnership brings in synergies of the Maini Group which is a diversified engineering powerhouse providing solutions for intra-campus electric mobility, material handling, aerospace and automotive precision products, and the SUN Group which has global investments in a wide range of sectors such as energy (oil & gas), mining, renewable energy and new energy storage applications.
SUN Mobility's vision is to create a universal network of interoperable energy infrastructure to accelerate the mass adoption of electric mobility. Our approach of separating the battery from the vehicle addresses three key issues facing EV adoption – high up-front cost, Range Anxiety, and long charging times. The revolutionary digitally enabled ‘Pay-as-you-go’ system for energy consumption offers an extremely convenient way to refuel EVs, thus fostering adoption.
SUN Mobility has collaborated with vehicle manufacturers (OEMs), battery cell technology providers, fleet operators/aggregators, Energy infrastructure companies (Discoms and Oil & Gas players) and cities across the ecosystem to enable the quicker adoption of our solution, thereby accelerating the transition to large-scale EV adoption.
An entrepreneur and technologist for over two decades, Chetan is passionate about creating sustainable mobility solutions to accelerate mass adoption of electric mobility. Having invented the Reva, India’s first electric car in 1999, an electric vehicle much ahead of its time, he is globally acknowledged as a pioneer in the electric vehicle space. He has over 25 years’ experience in leading teams that developed electric, hybrid and solar vehicles and has applied for/been granted over 35 global patents. Chetan played an instrumental role in advising the central and state governments on respective EV policies.
SUN Mobility is the leading provider of universal energy infrastructure and services to accelerate mass electric vehicle usage.
