SEPTEMBER 201819Adarin ET: Hybrid Automobiles with Sustainable SolutionsPresently, the Indian auto-motive market is heading towards electric mobility revolution. There are two ways to approach electric mobility - Electric Hybrid vehicles (electrified vehicles) and Battery powered Elec-tric vehicles. At this time most of the electric mobility technology is im-ported which are costly and very few efforts are being made to develop these technological products indig-enously. Bangalore based Adarin ET is one of the few companies in India which holds patents in strong elec-tric hybrid transmission technology and has also developed proprietary smart motor controllers and smart battery packs. In the electric hybrid vehicle space, the company is developing the first `Battery-less electric hy-brid car' with Motomatic Hybrid Transmission (MHT drive) in col-laboration with Asian automotive major. "We have also developed an Electric three-wheeler which offers same performance as their Gaso-line counter parts and have all smart IOT features. This complete electric power train kit is being marketed to automotive OEMs so that they can offer electric vehicle variants along with their gasoline and diesel vari-ants," speaks Kajal Shah, CEO.The GenesisThe ideation of Adarin ET dates back to a time when the founders while studying in IITs and there-after working in Automotive R&D centres understood that a standard approach to improve vehicle mile-age is to improve Engine technol-ogy and design to make them more fuel efficient. Based on their collec-tive insights on automobiles, they realised that even the driving skills also dictate the real-world mileage achieved by customers and vary driver to driver. This problem gets more aggravated when drivers learn to drive vehicles without any proper technical training. This gave birth to idea of intelligent programmable transmission which reduces the im-pact of hap-hazard driving patterns of drivers on vehicle mileage. Kajal has a strong background of design and engineering while Saurabh has proven skills in vehicle integration and vehicle testing. So, they came together and zeroed in on Adarin ET to develop intelligent transmission for fuel efficient vehicles. "A major breakthrough in thought process of dealing with a system itself was re-quired. India misses this Lab culture where you have to unlearn things, drop the judgemental approach then only innovations happen. The product developed at Adarin ET has a very different approach on how Engines, transmission and vehicle are controlled. This is what is keep-ing us ahead of our competitors," mentions Kajal.A start-up focused on devel-oping intelligent transmissions for pure electric and Electric Hybrid vehicles, Adarin ET is adaptive, ag-ile and quick in adapting changing market demands and technological upgradations. Their lead times are also significantly lesser as compared to established companies. With a dedicated team of 12 people includ-ing academic and industrial consul-tants, the company has partnered with a Singapore based Electric Ve-hicle company, Shado EV to expand their global presence. "Our business partners have been key in helping us understand global market and reach has increased. At present, we have product developments going on for clients from India, Vietnam, Singa-pore and Middle East," she adds. In the years to come, Adarin ET is determined to develop mobility technologies which have zero car-bon, zero emission foot print on en-vironment. "The adoption of electric vehicles in itself is a big challenge. We are focused on building an eco-system around which adaptation / acceptance of electric vehicles will increase like quick charging, battery life similar to vehicle life," she concludes. Adarin ET is determined to develop mobility technologies which have zero carbon, zero emission foot print on environmentKajal Shah,CEOSTARTUPS IN HARDWARE 20 MOST PROMISING 2018
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