Bhavish Aggarwal

1 month ago | restofworld.org | Bhavish Aggarwal |Jane Seidel

This article is adapted from Rest of World’s recent feature: Inside the spectacular rise and crash of India’s largest EV companyBhavish Aggarwal is the CEO of Ola Electric, India’s largest electric vehicle company. Aggarwal’s path to EV success began with gas-powered taxis. In 2010, he was a recent graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay when he quit his job at Microsoft to launch Ola Cabs. The company quickly became seen as India’s answer to Uber.

1 month ago | restofworld.org | Atul Dev |Bhavish Aggarwal |Jane Seidel

One evening last September, Pitambar Panda, a 24-year-old product designer in the Indian city of Pune, mounted his pearly white electric Ola scooter. He accelerated noiselessly through the city’s busy avenues on his way home from work. When he was shopping for a scooter a few months earlier, Panda, short on funds, chose to go electric to save on gas. He was one of the founders of a small food-delivery app, for which he sometimes made deliveries.