Indian electrical mobility startup Ultraviolette is one you’ve in all probability already heard of, particularly in case you’ve seen all of the stuff we’ve written about them prior to now. It’s simply considered one of many electrical bike manufacturers to emerge from India, but it surely appears to be some of the promising, because it’s one of many few that has managed to increase outdoors of India, and into Europe.
In October final yr, Ultraviolette made some large progress in its world enlargement initiatives. It managed to safe certification for the F77, the corporate’s flagship electrical bike. And although it set a moderately bold price ticket for the brand new mannequin (suppose near the $11,000 USD mark), the corporate stays bullish on its quest for European domination.
As it will prove, one other Indian firm is enjoying fairly a job in UV’s European enlargement, and it’s none apart from TVS. Thanks largely to TVS’ trade experience, funding, and established status within the bike trade, Ultraviolette is eyeing key markets like Germany, Italy, Spain, France, and Turkey—international locations which might be fairly large on bikes, and have been driving innovation within the electrical bike phase, too.
Ultraviolette CTO and co-founder Niraj Rajmohan lately spoke to the Indian automotive publication AutoCar Professional concerning the corporate’s enlargement in Europe. In keeping with Rajmohan, Europe is a powerful strategic start line for UV’s world enlargement due to its sturdy motorcycling tradition. “For us, the place to begin is Europe as motorcycling is a part of European tradition and it’s an inherently European factor. Now we have received our automobiles homologated in these markets,” he stated.
As for the bike itself, properly, the F77 simply must be the coolest-looking electrical bike to come back out of any Indian producer. And judging from the varied person evaluations scattered all around the interwebs, it appears to be a moderately respectable little bit of package, with riders in India managing to cowl numerous distance on the factor, all whereas absorbing India’s harsh highway situations, unpredictable climate, and loopy site visitors. Heck, this factor managed to show its personal towards a number of the hottest entry-level sportbikes available in the market. Take a look at the video under:
So yeah, it appears Ultraviolette truly has a great product to again up its claims, and it’s greater than seemingly that the F77 will likely be put to the check as soon as European operations decide up steam. And as for what’s subsequent for Ultraviolette, properly, the truth that the F77 has been homologated for on-road use in Europe means it’ll be straightforward to adapt it to be used in just about any nation. And it’s greater than seemingly, assuming issues go properly over in Europe, that UV will make its method to markets in Asia and even North America.
That being stated, we’ll very a lot be ready for this bike to make it stateside (or to the Philippines the place I’m from) so we will lastly get our arms on it and take it for a experience.
