into battery tech as into the rest of the vehicle and that is using commonly available materials in indianiraj rajmohan cofounder cto ultraviolettethey spent about a year experimenting with ideas we concluded that if we have to get india excited about electric vehicles we cant start with scooters because scooters dont have an emotional connect its more a utility product whereas motorcycles have a large emotional connect narayan saysthe battery pack was by far the trickiest part to design and build tech for lithium batteries did not exist in india back then so we had to look into the aerospace industry says niraj they found the talent required in companies like honeywell and boeing people who knew how to build very high levels of safety into electrical systems the way avionic systems are built involves accounting for every single failure and having redundant mechanisms thats the kind of protection mechanisms we wanted in our battery management system for example says nirajcooling the battery was a huge challenge given the high power output level all the heat generated had to be dissipated but adding cooling systems would increase weight niraj says the engine and fuel tank in a traditional bike weigh around 40 kg with a full tank of fuel but their battery and motor was about 80 kg this meant they had to make other components very lightit seemed like an impossible challenge our starting point was how does nasa cool their astronauts battery pack when they are in outer space says narayan they found nasa uses materials like expensive ceramics that wasnt viable for them so they innovated with materials readily available in india like aluminium in the end they managed to design the largest battery pack for a production motorcycle in indiathey also had to design three critical electronic modules the motor controller vehicle controller and a battery management system all of these systems were built by us entirely from scratch narayan saysthey are set to make their first bike deliveries well be keenly watching to see how big the headlines on them will be in the coming months