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Premium electric motorcycle manufacturer Ultraviolette on Tuesday said it has secured USD 21-million in a funding round with strategic investment from deep tech investor TDK Ventures. TDK Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Japanese firm TDK. "The investment round of USD 21-million saw strategic participation from TDK Ventures and strong continued backing from existing investors Zoho Corporation and Lingotto (previously Exor Capital) among other leading institutional investors," Ultraviolette said in a statement. Other investors in Ultraviolette include Sriharsha Majety (co-founder & CEO, Swiggy), Ankit Nagori (co-founder, Cure Foods; former Chief Business Officer, Flipkart), Aprameya Radhakrishna (Co-founder, TaxiForSure), and actor Dulquer Salmaan, the company said. The partnership with TDK Ventures represents a pivotal step in Ultraviolette's mission to develop and scale globally competitive performance-oriented EVs, it stated. "We look forward to bringing our TDK
Electric motorcycle maker Matter Motor Works plans to launch one new model every year in the next three years as it looks to accelerate volume growth, its Co-founder and Group COO Arun Pratap Singh said on Thursday. The Ahmedabad-based company, which on Thursday launched its geared electric bike AERA in the Delhi market, plans to open up to 60 dealerships across the country this fiscal, with the majority of them in South India, Singh told PTI here. "There are products planned, at least a new launch every year. So that's what we can see for the next three years," he said when asked about the company's product pipeline. He said the company is focusing on electric motorcycles only at present and is not looking at electric scooters "as of now". On the company's first model AERA, he said, "We took almost six years to develop the vehicle. We started deliveries in October last year." The company had confined sales in the Ahmedabad market for the first six months to study consumer feedbac
Tata Motors, the leader in the domestic electric passenger vehicle segment, is seeking to regain its market share of 50 per cent in the mid-to-long term through expansion and renewal of its product portfolio, according to a top company official. With the domestic electric passenger vehicle market fragmenting into four distinct segments on the basis of price points, the company will be entering the above Rs 20 lakh category with its upcoming Harrier.ev and Sierra.ev, Tata Motors Passenger Vehicle and Tata Passenger Electric Mobility Managing Director Shailesh Chandra told PTI here in an interview. The company is working to make the total cost of ownership (TCO) of its EVs in the fleet segment comparable to that of CNG vehicles to regain volumes, he added. "We have the aspiration of sustaining our market share beyond 50 per cent in the mid to long term...We would aspire to be at a 50 per cent market share by having a very wide product portfolio and products which are aligned to the ..
Electric premium motorcycle maker Ultraviolette plans to bring 10 new products, including scooters and long-range cruiser bikes, in the next three years as it looks to accelerate market presence, company CEO and Co-founder Narayan Subramaniam said on Wednesday. The company, which unveiled its first electric scooter 'Tesseract' along with new lightweight electric motorcycle 'Shockwave' here, is also looking at bringing 'multi-terrain bikes' in future. As part of its new product plans, Ultraviolette, in which TVS Motor Co is an investor, plans a new bike under its existing F series of performance bikes, two more scooters under the S series under which Tesseract will be introduced besides two more lightweight bikes under the L Series along with 'Shockwave'. Electric scooter Tesseract comes at an introductory price of Rs 1.2 lakh for the first 10,000 units after which it will be sold at Rs 1.45 lakh while its e-bike 'Shockwave' comes at an introductory price of Rs 1,49,999 for the first