Sun Mobility eyeing bigger play in sustainable transportation solution

It is reinventing the way batteries are distributed and energy is stored

Chetan Maini's Reva, the country's first electric car might have failed to capture the imagination of the city commuters due to high cost of acquisition and lack of charging infrastructure, but it did spark an idea to bring the discourse on zero-emission mobility solutions to the centre-stage in a country that is one of the world's most polluted.

Almost two decades after he gave India its first electric car, Maini is at it again. Maini and Uday Khemka’s (an investment banker) ten-months-old startup Sun Mobility, a 50:50 joint venture between Virya Mobility 5.0 and SUN New Energy Systems. The startup