Riding the Future with Niraj Rajmohan

In this in-depth interview, Niraj Rajmohan, CTO & Co-Founder, Ultraviolette, discusses their newly launched F77 Mach 2 motorcycle, and sheds light on their comprehensive testing, design aspects, and pricing strategies. Excerpts from the interview… TOS: What’s new on the F77 Mach 2 mechanically as compared to your first gen motorcycle launched last year? NR: “We unveiled the first gen F77, last year, in 2023. When we started, there was no benchmark for us, we were the only product out there. Of course, there were electric motorcycles that were priced at $20,000 in other markets and all of that, but they were not really making a meaningful commercial impact and it wasn’t really competing with IC engines with prices 3X or 4X of the IC engine counterpart! One important thing that we did last year, when we launched our product, was [ensure that] the performance [was] bang on [and that] it met the expectations of mid-segment motorcycle in terms of upfront acceleration, top speed, [and] the available range.  [For instance], with a full tank of petrol how much do you get and we tried to sort of get to that, or even outcompete it. And, we got all of those aspects right and that