Chetan Maini, Co- Founder and Chairman, SUN Mobility
As an entrepreneur and technologist for 20+ years, Chetan Maini’s lifelong vision has been to create
products and solutions to deepen the adoption of clean and sustainable mobility. Having invented the
Reva in 1999, an electric vehicle much ahead of its time, he is globally acknowledged as a pioneer in the
electric vehicle space. Chetan has spent over two decades working with electric, hybrid and solar vehicles
in USA and India and holds over 30 global patents. Taking forward his relentless passion for transformative
mobility run on renewable energy, Chetan and Uday Khemka of SUN New Energy Systems, a clean energy
market leader, set up SUN Mobility in April 2017.
An authority and visionary on EVs, he has served on a number of Government boards set up to frame EV
policies. Chetan has also received several accolades including the BBC Top Gear “Man of the Year” award;
the Innovation award in Energy and Environment by The Economist in London; ET Auto GABS “Innovator
of the Year” Award and the Frost & Sullivan India Start-ups – “Visionary Innovation Leadership Award”
