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Anand Mimani Has Sold Wheels, Bought Trucks, and Now Wants to Sell EVs
Before Anand Mimani sold alternate-fuel trucks, he spent three years buying them. It turns out that matters.
By Shahkar Abidi
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The battery weighs 2.8 tonnes. At one of Blue Energy Motors' swap stations along the Mumbai–Pune corridor, it waits in a rack with its charged siblings; freight in its own right, indifferent and enormous until a 55-tonne electric truck pulls in off the highway. Then, in about five minutes, a machine lifts the depleted battery out and lowers a full one in, and the truck pulls away again toward the gates of Jawaharlal Nehru Port, carrying steel or cement or containers, the way diesel trucks have carried them for a century.
"It works very beautifully," Anand Mimani said, with the ...
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