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Place of Birth: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
About Chetan Maini
- Chetan Maini, Co-Founder, Vice Chairman at SUN Mobility, is an Indian business magnate in the electric car industry.
- He is best known for building India's first electric car, REVA,[5] and as the Founder of Reva Electric Car Company Ltd, now Mahindra Electric Mobility Limited, where he served as an advisor.[1] SUN Mobility, a joint venture between Virya Mobility 5.0 and SUN New Energy Systems, aims to be a provider of charging points and services to accelerate mass electric vehicle usage.
- Chetan is the director of Maini Group and co-founder of Virya Mobility 5.0.
- He is also an investor and on the board of several clean-tech start-ups [15]. From July 2013 to April 2015, Chetan was Chief Executive Officer, Chief of Technology and Strategy[2], and Deputy Chairman at Mahindra Reva[3], which he founded as Reva Electric Car Company in 1994.
- Under his leadership, the company sold 4000 vehicles in 24 countries and was ranked as one of the 50 most innovative companies in the world by Fast Company magazine.
- Chetan holds over 40 patents in battery and energy management systems in electric vehicle technologies.
- Over the course of 20 years, Chetan has developed six electric, solar and hybrid-electric cars in India.[4] In 2009, Business Week magazine named him as one of India's "Top 50 Influential people".[4] He was the "Man of the Year" for Top Gear India in the year of 2014.
- and the Innovation award in Energy and Environment by The Economist in London [2]
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