The $90 Billion Opportunity in India’s Commercial EV Market | Exponent's Arun Vinayak Interview

In this episode of Start to Scale, Arun Vinayak, Co-Founder and CEO of Exponent Energy unpacks how he is tackling one of the hardest challenges in the EV transition: rapid energy delivery for commercial vehicles.

While many startups focus on consumer software or passenger EVs, Exponent Energy is building deep-tech hardware, charging infrastructure and energy management platforms to enable sub-20-minute rapid charging for India's massive commercial vehicle segment.  

What's been covered:

• Introduction: From Ather to Exponent Energy   
• Why Commercial Vehicles Are the Key to Mass EV Adoption   
• Solving Charging Anxiety & Fleet Economics   
• How India Can Lead in Core EV Hardware & R&D   
• Defining an "Energy Company of the Future"   
• Pitching to Investors & Building Deep-Tech Hardware   
• Factory Tour: Questioning Battery Fundamentals   
• Battery as a Service vs. Energy as a Service   
• Expanding to Buses, Trucks & Scaling the Network   
• What True Scale Looks Like by 2030