http://www.manufacturingtodayindia.com Manufacturing Today | JULY 2019
POLARITY
BIKES
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- The bike has six
prototypes and will be
available from Rs 35K
to Rs 1.2 lakh.
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THE STREETS OF EUROPE AND CHINA ARE
thronged with two-wheel contraptions. They could
be your conventional petrol mopeds or a regular
bicycle. But it's only when they zoom through red
lights at pedestrian crossings, their eerie silence
and lack of exhaust reveals them as electric. Elec-
tric bicycles that have been hacked together with a
battery strapped to the frame and wired to a back-
wheel hub containing a motor are a common sight.
Such sights often tug at the heartstrings. For one,
India could have adopted this years ago consider-
ing our inadequate infrastructure, and foreseeing
the increasing density of four-wheelers on roads
today. It's only recently that the government has
been talking about electric vehicles. While the focus
has been mainly confined to four-wheelers, it is now
turning to two-wheelers. But that again seems to
have met with some opposition from mainstream
two-wheeler makers.
But there is a way. Two Pune-based young au-
tomobile enthusiasts have shown the road. After
spending almost a decade being gainfully em-
ployed, Sachin Jadhav, CMD, and Anand Mohan,
executive director, Polarity Bikes, have spent the
last two years working on a concept that was con-
ceived nearly a decade ago when they were peers
at Coventry. Jadhav's competence is automobile
design, while Mohan went on to become an auto-
motive journalist.
What the duo have created could be a harbinger
for quick movement at large locations such as shop
floor of manufacturing plants, malls, airports, etc.ELECTRIC
MIRACLE
PERSONAL MOBILITY COULD SOON
COME TO MEAN SOMETHING NEW
ONCE POLARITY LAUNCHES ITS
ELECTRIC BIKES. OFF-ROADING IS
ANOTHER OPTION
BY JAYASHREE KINI MENDES