The grand finale of the CASE Mobility Grand Start-up Challenge concluded at the recently held Hyderabad E-Mobility Week. Young entrepreneurs intending to accelerate innovation in Connected, Autonomous, Shared, and Electric (C.A.S.E.) mobility in India presented their innovative business ideas to the jury.
Founders of seven start-ups, including two each from Telangana and Karnataka and one each from Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, and Gujarat, presented their innovations and business ideas and made strong pitches to the jury at the finals of the Challenge.
i-elektrik, which creates smart charging solutions for the emerging EV markets, won the Challenge, while NeoMotion, an IIT Madras start-up that creates transformative electric products for wheelchair users (elderly, physically challenged) to enable them to be an inclusive part of society, was adjudged the runner-up. They both will avail of a grant of INR 15 lakh, sponsored by TVS Motor, for their projects.
The event also saw participation from other start-ups like Hala Mobility which provides a multimodal EV shared mobility platform with two offerings, EV as a service and platform as a service for micro fleet operators; Adiabatic, a social enterprise that provides scalable, intelligent Battery Management System technology (BMS) to calculate and predict accurate battery data, reducing temperatures of the battery; Comuti Energy Vayu, a sustainable mobility venture with patented technology of storage of fuel for fuel cell technology, Aatral that develops innovative cathode for Sodium-Ion batteries as an alternate of lithium batteries, and AutoNXt which builds driverless electric tractors and high voltage electric powertrains.
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