Vasai’s Strom-R3 is headed to Vegas

Sipping coffee at a suburban café, Pratik Gupta, 37, Founder, Strom Motors, exhibits an unusual confidence in his voice. He begins the conversation with how ARAI and RTO approvals for their three-wheel personal mobility solution, Strom-R3, has led to a confidence return in the market, as makers relook at disrupting the automotive space with new category vehicles. "The need of the hour is to disrupt the market with quality and innovative EVs than wait for government incentives," he says. An R&D professional with big names such as NASA and US Army on his project experience list, Gupta, returned to India in 2011 and established E14 Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (2012), in Mumbai, an R&D company, working in the areas of sustainable solutions and automation. He moved quickly with his co-founder, Jean-Luc Abaziou, ex-CEO, Alcatel, and by 2016, Strom was born out of an in-house R&D project. Strom Motors is a wholly- owned subsidiary of E14 Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Since then, there has been no looking back for him and the team. "I always wanted to work towards sustainable solutions and its ecosystem. As a technology person, we understand technology at its birth, how it progresses, and we know that barriers have