Global IoT Summit on Realities and Road Ahead On Nov 9-10, 2016

India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA), the premier trade body representing the Indian Electronic System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) industry, along with, The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE, Bangalore Chapter), with a mission to foster entrepreneurship globally, will be hosting the second edition of IoTNext to co-learn, discuss and debate current IoT (Internet of Things) deployment successes and challenges and as well as deliberate on the  next wave of IoT possibilities on November 9 and 10, 2016 at Hotel Sheraton, Bengaluru.

This year, with the theme “Realities and Road Ahead”, the Global IoT summit will include sessions and tracks on 'Industrial IoT/Industry 4.0’, 'Safe Nation', 'Smart Agriculture and Food', ‘Road Ahead for IoT' and ‘Innovations from India’. Companies like Samsung, Accenture, GE, IBM, Intel, NABARD and many more have already partnered with IoTNext in its 2016 journey. The event will host a developer’s workshop in parallel and showcase top 50 IoT startups from India. For the startup ecosystem, IoTNext will have a panel discussion on how the incubators and accelerators can help the IoT startups with a star cast of hardware/IoT accelerators like SINE (IIT Mumbai), IKP EDEN, NASSCOM Deity IoT CoE and as well as HAX. Benjamin Joffe, General Partner at HAX, the most successful IoT hardware accelerator will be at the event.

The billion dollar startup firm, General Electric will be presenting their IoT platform Predix, Mr. Harish Dave, Deputy Managing Director of NABARD will outline the role of technology in doubling farmer’s income and Cybersecurity for IoT will be explored with insights from Defcon and BlackHat.

 IoTNext will also recognize the most promising start-ups in the Safe Nation, Industrial IoT, Agriculture and Food, Medical/Healthcare and Automotive space. The last date for receiving nominations will be October 28, 2016.  

Applications need to be registered athttp://www.iotnext.org/awards. IoTNEXT 2016 is bringing together an esteemed list of global experts and decision makers from IoT focused system integrators, multinational entities, IT Services companies, network providers, industry leaders, research organizations, IoT startups/entrepreneurs and also, various government representative and decision makers for this two day summit to reflect on the IoT realities and explore possibilities for the future. The Road Ahead session will debate and discuss IoT platforms, cognitive and AI technologies for IoT and Low Power Wireless LAN solutions.

‘Digital India’, ‘Smart Cities’ and ‘Make in India’ are also taking big leaps with the Indian government’s aggressive to drive the growth and development of the nation. The India talent base is also ripe for IoT to take advantage of the IoT growth worldwide in the next 10 years, as it has done so effectively in the IT space.

Speaking about the event, M N Vidyashankar, President, IESA, said, “To ensure India’s leadership in the IoT space, we need to capitalize on the opportunities available in the domestic and global markets and compete with  companies on a global scale and  transform technology companies into successful product and platform developers.”

“Digitizing India is going to create immense opportunities for India’s technology companies, with emerging areas like Smart cities, Smart healthcare, Smart transportation, Smart agriculture etc. The change has started happening with IoT start-ups introducing and familiarizing the market with smart devices. We believe that this is the beginning of India’s IoT revolution. Hence, we expect IoTNext 2016 to identify   areas of growth, leading to a mature IoT ecosystem in the coming years,” he added.

“India is transforming into a digital economy, with IoT being the catalyst. There is no doubt IoT space is growing at an exponential rate and creating a thriving ecosystem around it. The startup culture is now imbibed into IoT sphere and we see 500+ startups adding momentum to the IoT space, particularly the product startups. The IoT Forum has been instrumental since 2014 to build this India IoT ecosystem. IoTNext is the platform to celebrate this success.The IoT Forum has a special focus on AgricTech and IoT Security. We will be formalizing an IoT security taskforce with the CISO platform. ” said Naganand Doraswamy, President TiE-Bangalore.

This event will also host The IoTNext 2016 Awards The awards session, jointly organised by IESA & TiE Bangalore, will focus on IoT Startups highlighting the most innovative IoT products and solutions developed in India. All India based local and global companies that have a direct/formal presence in India or conduct product development in India can participate. The Awards aim to promote and support startups and entrepreneurs in fabless semiconductor and electronic products in the IoT or connected devices space.

 Version 1.0 of IoTNext in December 2015 saw a full house with 750+ delegates, 50+ expert speakers from all around the globe, 50+ innovative IoT startups, MNCs, systems integrators, academicians, government officials and investors engaged over 2 full days. IoTNext was commended for a great mix of high-level overview of state of IoT affairs and vision with ground up, hands-on sessions on actual pilots and deployments. Sharad Sharma and the iSPIRT team launched IndiaStack at IoTNext 2015 and the first public presentation of IndiaStack was a much acclaimed session at the event. Please view the newsletter for IoTNext 2015.

Noteworthy guests for IoTNEXT 2016 include: Marc Carrel-Billiard, Managing Director of Global Technology RnD, Accenture; Shalini Kapoor, Distinguished Engineer at IBM and CTO - IoT Ecosystem Solutions; Sivakumar, Group Head, Agri & IT business, ITC; Sashikant Suryanarayan, CEO, SEDEMAC; and Dileep Mangsuli, CTO, GE Healthcare

TCL Unveils 65-Inch 4K UHD Smart TV on Amazon in India

The world's third-largest TV manufacturer and one of the top TV brand on Amazon, TCL announced its new 65 inch 4K Ultra HD LED Smart TV which is available in the Indian market in exclusive partnership with Amazon.in. Enjoy the Creative Life with the TCL 65” LED Ultra-High Definition Smart TV featuring next-generation 4K technology and a Smart TV platform. Bring UHD into the living room through 4K streaming with HEVC decoding, connecting 4K devices through 3 HDMI ports, or up scaling HD content.  Dual Band 802.11 2x2 Wi-Fi provides instant access to movies, TV shows, music, sports, and news through your favorite apps. TCL UHD televisions reproduce stunning details, all shades of light and natural colors for a truly immersive viewing experience, via 3840x2160 pixels (4x the numbers of pixels on Full HD TVs). It delivers a complete multimedia home theater experience with its endless Smart TV capabilities and breathtaking picture quality.

TCL’s 4K UHD TV represents singular focus on innovation that matters most to consumers, by providing the very best picture quality for the home at an affordable price.TCL gives highly value to the Indian market and expect to bring the premium products and services to the Indian consumers. In order to guarantee the best product quality, TCL exports complete TV sets to India even though it means higher cost compared with local assembly.

Television technology has evolved so much in the last couple of years that it’s easy to get confused between LEDs, LCDs, Smart TVs and the like. As per the Amazon recent report, TCL has become one of the top 3 brands in the TV category for the month of October. Under 32-inch product (TV) category, TCL 32D2900 TV has secured one of the top 3 products of this month. And TCL has become the top 1 brand for the larger screen category.

Commenting on the launch,  Praveen Valecha, Regional Director – TCL India, said, “We are revolutionizing the home entertainment experience with launch of our new 65” 4K UHD Smart LED Television range for the people to discover sharper and smarter cinematic and connected experience. TCL’s focus has always been on providing cutting edge technology at affordable prices. Our latest range further strengthens our commitment to this vision. With the latest range, users now have the best of the world technology and so many features loaded that they’re unlikely to find them all in one television. The attractive pricing further adds to the sheen because great technology must be accessible to millions. With the upcoming festive season and so many auspicious days, we expect a great response to the new TV range.”

Announcing the launch of this device in India, Mike Chen, Country Manager, TCL TMT said, “TCL 65 inch 4K UHD Smart LED TV is featuring an ultra-thin bezel with a modern chrome metallic silver finish, delivers more picture in a sophisticated ultra-slim frame design. Our best and brightest 4K Ultra HD television is proof of TCL’s continuing commitment to deliver the ultimate home entertainment experiences to our customers. We believe that streaming is the future of television. Consumers today want complete control over their entertainment and content consumption, which explains why a growing number of populations now own a smart TV.”

TCL 65 inch 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV is powered by Cortex-A53 which is one of the most energy efficient and smallest 64-bit processors. The processor while being energy-efficient also delivers extraordinary performance comparable to a high-end smartphone. With the strong “2+2” CPU& “4+2”GPU chipset frame, P1 Series allows you to enjoy a faster and better smart world with great image experience.

Users can enjoy an exceptional streaming experience with popular TV shows and movie productions in their highest quality with GoLive, a global live HD online cloud service provider, for short buffering times with real-time updates. Fast is not fast enough with the motion estimation and motion compensation chip. The Mstar 64 bit MEMC chip is one of the best in the world, enhanced with TCL’s proprietary software algorithm, you can now experience every detail when viewing fast moving, action packed content.

4K Ultra HD: See everything in greater clarity with 4 times the amount of pixels than Full HD TVs. TCL’s UHD televisions deliver stunning details and an ultra-sharp picture quality for a truly immersive viewing experience. Enjoy breathtaking Ultra HD picture quality, with more than eight million pixels for enhanced clarity and detail, as well as the proprietary TCL Creative Pro 4K UHD Up scaling Engine, which allows consumers to view any HD content in near 4K quality.

HRD Technology: HDR delivers greater picture contrast, enhances image details and brings vivid colors to life. HDR signal is an upgrade to the current television programming signal-standard. With whole-process 4K HDR technology, interface, chassis, consequently delivering a wider brightness range.

Ultra Slim Design: Designed to be the envy of many, the segmented body looks slim and light. Framed to fit the creative life, with an overall thickness of 69.6mm, the thinnest part is only 12mm, the design is beautiful both inside and out.

Multiple Multimedia Format: The latest ASIC system adopted by TCL, forms an umbrella of support for a plethora of audio and video formats including the latest coding system, from antenna to USB and various other input channels. The TV supports MP3, WMA, Dolby AC3 and MPEG2, MPEG4 (H.264) Video Coding.

nScreen application: The TCL nScreen application lets users to use their smartphone or tablet as a remote control. It’s simple: just connect the Smart TV to the smartphone or tablet by Wi-Fi and will be able to share photos and videos to view on the superior TCL screen. View your phone's content on your big screen, relax, lean back and enjoy!

Put more TV into less space - The ultra-thin bezel allows the TV to fit more screen into less space, giving you that big picture experience without having to sacrifice screen or wall space. Framed to fit the creative life, the design is modern and neat, fitted with an alloy metal back cover and overall thickness of 69.6 mm with a 178 degree viewing angle, 4000:1 contrast ratio and 16:9 aspect ratios.

Pricing and Availability: The TCL 65” 4K Ultra HD P1 Smart LED TV will be available in India with a special Launch offer at Rs 79,999 on Amazon.in

Lenovo’s Commercial Desktops and Notebooks Feature 7th Gen AMD PRO Processors

Today at the Canalys Channels Forum, AMD debuted the Lenovo ThinkCentre M715 Tiny and ThinkPad E475 and E575, new commercial desktop and notebooks featuring 7th Generation AMD PRO APUs (formerly codenamed “Bristol Ridge PRO”). AMD PRO APUs are built for business, with robust security, reliability, and increased energy efficiency to help protect customers’ IT investments.

“These latest AMD PRO based-systems from Lenovo are optimized for business and deliver increased computing and graphics performance, at levels that meet the highest of customer expectations,” said Jim Anderson, senior vice president and general manager, Computing and Graphics Group, AMD. “These systems combine commercial-grade quality, performance, and stability, with excellent video and audio capabilities, helping ensure businesses are more productive and collaborative. We are thrilled to partner with Lenovo to bring this technology to companies and enterprises around the world.”

“Businesses today are constantly evolving, demanding better performance, security, manageability, and usability from their computers. This is why Lenovo provides innovation both inside and outside our commercial products and works with partners like AMD, who bring a similar focus on giving users the best experience possible,” said Bai Peng, vice president notebook business, PC & Smart Device Business Group at Lenovo. “The ThinkPad E475 and E575 notebooks and ThinkCentre M715 Tiny, based on the AMD PRO processor portfolio, enables businesses to deliver real-world performance and dependability optimized for business’ needs.”

 Enabled by 7^th generation AMD PRO processors the new Lenovo desktop and notebooks help ensure sensitive data and trusted applications remain secure with dedicated AMD Secure Processor technology. AMD PRO APUs meet users’ growing requirements by providing up to 14% more compute performance, up to 22% more graphic performance, and up to 32% more energy efficiency, than the previous generation AMD PRO processors. Open standards and CPU-agnostic DASH manageability allows IT departments to easily integrate and manage systems while the new AMD AM4 desktop infrastructure provides a stable and upgradable platform for the future.

New Lenovo ThinkCentre Desktop

Lenovo is breaking new ground with the ThinkCentre M715 Tiny. Despite being only one liter in size, the ThinkCentre M715 Tiny packs a punch. At 94% smaller than a traditional desktop tower, IT managers can place the tiny M715 almost anywhere with optional under desk, wall, and monitor back mounting options. The 35W 7^th generation AMD PRO processors were designed for ultra-small form factor PCs providing superb compute and graphics performance with excellent efficiency. For example, performance of the new AMD PRO A12-9800E is equivalent to the system performance of the prior generation AMD PRO A10-8750, at close to 1/3 of the power. The ThinkCentre M715 Tiny is a high performance, ultra-compact desktop that can be used almost anywhere.

New Lenovo ThinkPad Notebooks

The new thin and light ThinkPad E475 and E575 provide a superb mix of performance, mobility, and security. Weighing as little as 4.1lbs. (1.87kg) and measuring less than 1 inch (23.7mm) thin the new ThinkPad notebooks offer excellent mobility and excellent battery life for extended productivity. The E475 and E575 offer an outstanding user experience with AMD Radeon™ R5 M430 graphics, enhanced VOIP features, and improved microphones for excellent videoconferencing.

The Lenovo ThinkPad E475 and E575 will be available on November 7. The ThinkCentre M715 Tiny is available on October 31^.

Oxyent Technologies Wins the IBM Smartcamp for Health Tech 2016

IBM in association with T-Hub and Manipal Hospitals,  announced Oxyent Technologies as the winner of its IBM Smartcamp for Health Tech 2016 challenge, an exclusive program aimed at identifying Startups having  cutting edge innovations in the healthcare industry in India. UE Life Sciences and DailyRounds were second and third winners respectively. The event held on October 21, 2016 at T-Hub’s Catalyst building was a great opportunity for the participating startups to present their solutions to a panel of VCs, angel investors, enterprise CIOs, IBM executives and key influencers in the health care domain. The winners were felicitated by BVR Mohan Reddy, Former Chairman of Nasscom at the event.

 IBM SmartCamp, which was held in Hyderabad in association with T-Hub, India’s largest startup Ecosystem player and Manipal Hospitals, is a part of IBM’s Global Entrepreneur program initiative.  The event was aimed at identifying startups in the B2B and B2C space in India who are poised to redefine the healthcare industry through their technology innovations. The winners of IBM Smartcamp will be given access to IBM Cloud credits and can leverage the best of IBM technologies around Cognitive, Cloud, Analytics, Mobility, IoT and Infrastructure as a service. All participants will also get an opportunity to learn from IBM’s senior leadership and industry experts. After the great success of the IBM Smartcamp for Fin Tech challenge, the IBM Smartcamp for Health Tech invited startups which use innovative technology to scale their business and launch products to solve real world problems. 

“IBM Smartcamps are designed and aimed at providing opportunities for startups to get mentorship and work with IBM and industry experts to scale up their business quickly, particularly by taking advantage of cognitive and cloud-based technologies. The focus of IBM Smartcamp for Health Tech initiative was to provide the startups in healthcare an opportunity to showcase their products and get inputs first-hand from various stakeholders,” said Seema Kumar, Country Manager, Ecosystem Development, IBM India and SA. “At IBM, we are committed to empowering the next generation of start-ups that develop solutions to solve the most complex problems in the country. We are bullish on the potential of the Indian startup ecosystem to make effective use of technology to rapidly transform and improve the quality of healthcare solutions in the country.”

The winners were chosen after multiple level of screenings and panel rounds by the jury members. The winners were judged on various parameters like innovative solution, features & demos, ability to scale, team behind the product, and the market size they are addressing with their solution.

The winner of the IBM Smartcamp for Healthtech 2016, Harpreet Singh, Founder Oxyent Technologies said, "As an offering, we are engaged in developing affordable healthcare products focusing on improving the quality of health of children and providing decision support in their clinical practices. Enterprise technologies like IoT, cloud computing, big data and analytics are a pillar to our solution. IBM Global Entrepreneur program provided us free access to world class proven IaaS via Softlayer and best practices of PaaS in Bluemix. As a startup getting technical mentoring from IBM mentors in utilizing best practices in IoT and building on knowledge base of Watson will provide us an opportunity to be a world-class solution provider in child healthcare. The Smartcamp organized by the IBM Global Entrepreneur program provided us a platform to interact with top investors and healthcare domain mentors in India. The valuable insights on improving our offering and scale up techniques received from the mentors will makes us more viable for future investments.  We also had discussions with relevant people in the Healthcare for synergies. It was a fantastic experience we had throughout the Smartcamp and it is even more rewarding to be announced as a winner amongst the best Healthtech startups in India. We are also grateful to T-Hub for giving us such a great learning platform.”

Jay Krishnan, CEO T-Hub expressed, “We are excited to partner with Industry leaders such as IBM and Manipal Hospitals to facilitate events like the Heath Tech Smartcamp Challenge 2016. Such events will benefit startups in the ecosystem working in the area of healthcare innovation. Our mission overall is to lead sector specific collaboration between cutting edge startups and corporates looking for innovations in their domains.”

IBM Global Entrepreneur Program is a startup initiative by IBM which engages with the startups and provides them free cloud credits on IBM Cloud Solutions like Softlayer and Bluemix worth $24,000 for one year. With this initiative IBM also provides technical mentoring, assist the go to market and work with the accelerators of India. The primary focus for IBM through Smartcamp is to identifying the next gen Startups in different industries and helping them scale.

Next in line in the Smartcamp series is the Smartcamp for Smart City to be organized in New Delhi. IBM Global Entrepreneur program is accepting applications from B2B and B2C Startups less than 5 years having innovations around areas like Energy and Utility, Transportation, Sanitation, Water, Citizen Management, Safety and Surveillance. Agritech startups are also welcome. 

HR Staff Discuss Challenges & Opportunities to Manage People at Dun & Bradstreet India- People Leader’s Summit, 2016

 Dun & Bradstreet, the world’s leading provider of global business information, knowledge and insights, succesfully organized “Dun and Bradstreet India- People Leaders’ Summit, 2016” at The Lalit Ashok,  Bangalore on Tuesday October 25, 2016.

The Summit was attended by esteemed mid and senior level HR Professionals and corporate leaders from Indian as well as International organizations. The summit sought to draw insights and share views of HR professionals on the challenges and opportunities related to managing people in the VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) world.

Speaking on the occasion, Preeta Misra, Director- Learning Solutions, Dun and Bradstreet India, said, “Talent management is the top agenda for business. Millenials are defining the work place strengths. The people team should be involved in all critical activities of an organisation.”

Elaborating on VUCA World,  Amit Chatterjee, Managing Director, Sartorius India Group, said “Growth is a function of our investment in complexity. Individuals makes a choice/decisions companies don’t.In the VUCA world, we need to focus on individuals. When you develop strategy two things are important- implement and have people execute with ownership. We need to take care of perceived needs of employees across all generations, either let them grow inside or for people not wanting to changing let them growoutside the organisation.”

Further throwing light on the professional world, Pavan Kumar, Managing Director, Altair Engineering said “Millennial motivated to fulfill their creative urges. A youngster entering into professional world changes 7 jobs, of which, 5 does not exists. Millennials are motivated to fulfill their creative urges. One should sensitize the management/people to that. Over and above, the main aim should be to work towards mentoring people.”

The Summit concluded with the panel discussion. The eminent panel comprised of Mr. Anup Lewis, Director-HR, Schneider India Private Limited; Ruben Selvadoray, Director- HR, DBOI Global Services Private Limited; Vibha Shukla, Director and Head- HR, SAP India; Srijata Sengupta, Director – Talent Strategy, Accenture – India; Krity Sharma, Head- People, Tesco, Bengaluru; Sashi Kumar, India Head, Indeed.com; Dr. (Lt. Col.) John Chenetra, Chief Operating Officer, Verifacts. And Mathivanan Elangovan, VP and Head Learning, Development, Sify Technologies Ltd.

Personalize Your Diwali Greetings With n-Gage Stickers & Doodles

Diwali, the festival of lights is the most celebrated festival and is the ideal time to meet and greet people whilst exchange greetings and sweets and spread happiness As many of us prepare to celebrate Lord Rama’s victory over Ravana and his return from exile, this year we can mark new beginnings and strengthen our relationships with n-gage.

n-gage, the most Playful and Private messenger has created specially designed greeting cards and stickers for its users to wish their family and friends. Traditional methods of sending greeting cards may have vanished, but in today’s tech savvy generation we have apps that enable us to send electronic greetings cards and stickers. n-gage takes this concept a step further by giving its users the ability to customize their greeting cards and stickers by adding an audio clip, image or hand writing their messages.

The greeting cards and stickers can be personalized by adding an audio clip to reflect your mood on this auspicious occasion.

Ajit Patel, CEO and Founder of n-gage said “We have been in the forefront of innovation with our lifestyle messenger n-gage from the beginning and have been very user centric in our approach. Diwali is a time for us to be close to our family and friends, whilst continue to share moments of togetherness. With the features created within n-gage for sending messages, users will be able to add their personal touch to the greeting cards or stickers they decide to send as a gift to their loved ones this festive season.” 

So, this Diwali why not wish your loved ones using different ways to communicate on n-gage in over 45 different languages. What’s more, when you are lost for words, try Doodle Plus on n-gage. With an extensive color palette, you can draw, sketch and add festive accessories to your chats.

Users can even share their specially designed greeting cards, stickers and doodles to friends and family on various other social platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Emails and SMS, regardless of whether the other person has downloaded the app.*

n-gage enriches user experience by providing features that help you stay connected with loved ones regardless of whether they have a smartphone or not.  The app is available for use on Android, iOS, PC and tablet. Go on; bring out your playful side this festive period with n-gage, the playful messenger.

Smart Phone Like Features for Mahindra’s New EV e2oPlus

By Manu Sharma

India’s pioneer in Electric Vehicles (EV), Mahindra & Mahindra is looking for a bigger play in this segment with the launch of the e2oPlus. The company have loaded e2oPlus with features like a modern-day smartphone that can be powered remotely.

A smartphone app provides information of the car’s status on the battery charge, and even sends a reminder for its various functions. One can remotely lock and unlock the car, start and stop charging, turn the car on and off, switch the air conditioning on and off and even set a schedule using the smartphone app.

Talking to this media, Dharmendra Mishra, Vice President, Head Sales, Marketing and Consumer Care of Mahindra Electric says, “e2o has been designed looking at the present technology lifestyle the youth are used to and so to meet their requirements have packed the car with all modern features.”

Infact, to reduce noise and air pollution in major cities across India, the government is aggressively planning to roll out over 50 lakh electric and hybrid vehicles on Indian roads in the next three years. Mahindra Electric is the only company to roll out pure EV cars in India and has sold about 1.350 cars in Bengaluru, its major market in India.

At the core of the e2oPlus is a collection of connected features that have been developed to make the car both easier and more enjoyable to drive and maintain. Whether it’s remote diagnostics through telematics monitors the e2o on a daily basis giving instant diagnosis of any existing or impending problems or even planning a route, checking the health of the car or remotely cooling the car, the e2oPlus seamlessly integrates technologies to offer functionality and is aptly designed for easy urban computing.

The EV is certainly set to “Redefine the Future of Mobility” as Arvind Mathew, CEO of Mahindra Electric puts it. E2o, the 4-door variant is equipped with a GPS enabled navigation system and an on-board computer that warns you about the car's driving range. The touch-screen monitor is easy to use and very responsive. “The e2oPlus is one of the more advanced cars on Indian roads, with smartphone-controlled features, GPS navigation system and a dashboard-mounted touchscreen, keyless entry, start/stop button, and regenerative braking,” he adds.

The e2oPlus also gets an SOS feature called revive which is being carried over from the e2o that gives you an additional range of 7-10 km if your battery power dips below 10 per cent. This can be activated by a touch of a button or by using

the e2oPlus app on your smart phone besides the mobile app also hosts other features like switching on/off the car's air conditioning, advance infotainment system and even locking/unlocking the car has also made the car smarter.

There are other ingenious technologies that have been incorporated in the e2o such as Sun2Car, and regenerative braking system that further boost the car's range. The Sun2Car, for instance, allows people to charge the e2o using solar energy while it's parked. The regenerative braking technology puts energy back into the car’s batteries and charges them every time the brake is applied or the accelerator is not pressed.

Mahindra e2o is manufactured through processes that do not pollute from the design stage in India's first Platinum certified automobile plant. The facility itself is naturally lit and ventilated, uses LED lights, recycles, gets 35 percent of its power from solar panels and is claimed to be 60-70 percent more efficient than a conventional facility.

Specifications

The car has a lithium-ion battery pack that takes five hours for a full charge  and fast charging takes about 90 minutes. On a full charge, the car can travel for upto 140 km and can achieve a speed of 85 km/hr. Powered by the latest electric drive technology, the e2o can effortlessly cruise through the city traffic.

The car is priced between Rs 6.73 lakh and Rs 9.51 lakh (ex-showroom Bengaluru). The e2oPlus has four variants - P2, P4, P6, and P8. The P4 is priced at Rs 6.73 lakh, P6 at Rs 7.31 lakh and P8 at Rs 9.51 lakh (ex-showroom Bengaluru). However, the company did not disclose the price of its P2 variant, which it said is for fleet owners.