Ranchi, Abhishek Roy: Currently global warming is a big challenge. In such a scenario, people are turning to electric vehicles (e-vehicles or EVs) instead of petrol, diesel and CNG to promote ‘green energy’. Since driving an EV is profitable, auto drivers also want to own an EV auto, but a new EV is very expensive.
Pulkit Jain started his startup
Pulkit Jain, a resident of the capital’s Upper Bazar, started his startup to solve this problem. ‘Electromotion e-electric car’ Under Shuru he has developed a ‘retrofit’ method to convert diesel/petrol/CNG powered conventional autos into EVs.
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Buying a new EV auto is expensive, drivers have solved this problem
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Retrofitting cost is only Rs 60 thousand, this amount only old auto will become EV.
Pulkit was a student of CIT Tatisilwe
In 2019, the team of Pulkit, Gaurav Kumar Singh, Surya Pratap Singh and Biswajit Kumar, who were BTech students at CIT Tatisilway in the 2015-19 session, prepared ‘Retrofit’. With this strategy, cars with petrol, diesel and CNG engines can be converted into EVs at a cost of just Rs 60,000. Pulkit’s team’s startup concept received incubation at Raipur’s ‘Atal Innovation Center AIC @ 36INC’, from where the prototyping process was also completed.
MHRD Innovation Cell also received support
Besides, the cooperation of ‘MHRD Innovation Cell’ is also available. Today this startup is operating in states like Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Maharashtra. Starting with Business-to-Business (B-to-B) model, the company has started working on Business-to-Customer (B-to-C) model with manufacturing units from 31 July 2023.
Multi-million business with 10% profit margin
Pulkit informed that the company which started from an innovative idea is doing multi million business with 10% profit margin every year. Converting two machines into one Pulkit’s team believes in innovation. He founded the startup company ‘Automaton Robotics and Automation Prl’ while doing B.Tech in 2018.
Thus came the idea of hybrid machines
This company is manufacturing hybrid machines. Where 3-D printing machines and CNC machines are machined. The idea of the hybrid machine came during a college research project. Kailashpati Dutta, professor of the same department of CIT Tatisilav, assisted in this. Also helped in getting government funding to complete the project.
The target was four and a half lakh taka
The aim of the study was to reduce the cost of two separate machines, which is around Rs 4.5 lakh. It was successful and a hybrid Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machine was produced, costing only two lakh rupees. Along with this, the company is now providing prototype services for machine development and research to others.
