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