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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.

Shahkar AbidiBy Shahkar Abidi calendar 24 Aug 2026 Views icon8769 Views Share - Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to LinkedIn Share to Whatsapp
Anand Mimani Has Sold Wheels, Bought Trucks, and Now Wants to Sell EVs

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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