: Stanford Grad Cuts Time For Charging EV Batteries From 3 Hours to 2 Mins! #IndiaNEWS #Electric Vehicles One of the solutions posited for greater adoption of electric vehicles (EVs), which also addresses

Stanford Grad Cuts Time For Charging EV Batteries From 3 Hours to 2 Mins! #IndiaNEWS #Electric Vehicles
One of the solutions posited for greater adoption of electric vehicles (EVs), which also addresses the paucity of charging infrastructure, is ‘battery swapping’. Unfortunately, not all vehicle manufacturers in this space possess common battery specifications.
BatteryPool, a Pune-based startup incorporated by Stanford University graduate Ashwin Shankar in 2018, is addressing this particular challenge for two and three-wheelers through their internet of things (IoT) based intelligent battery-swapping station for fleets and commercial EVs.
Speaking to The Better India, Ashwin says, “We provide battery agnostic, IoT-enabled smart swapping stations to fleets and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) who want to run their battery swapping services. Other players do not offer such a tech stack (a combination of technologies a company uses to build and run an application) that is battery agnostic. They either provide their batteries as a service or provide a product with a specific battery standard. ???
About the specifications, Ashwin says, “These are typically 48V battery packs that have 1-3 kWh capacity. They provide a range of 40-80 km on a single charge depending on the pack type and EVs in which they are used. ??? Also, unlike standard charging stations which take on an average three to four hours to fully charge an EV, riders will only need an average of two minutes to swap their used batteries for fresh ones at the BatteryPool battery swapping station.
Ashwin Shankar, BatteryPool Founder and product of Stanford University
Entering the EV Domain
Born and raised in Pune to an entrepreneur father and a mother who teaches at a local college, Ashwin did his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in the United States and Masters in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
He moved back to India in 2015, and following his master’s degree from Stanford, worked for a year at the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Economic Research (CTIER), a public policy think tank advising the government on technology policy for the Indian manufacturing industry.
“During my stint at the think tank, I was looking at the tech ecosystem in the automotive space. It was evident that they are headed towards an EV future. It seemed like an interesting space to build a company. From the beginning, we felt that the adoption of EVs in India will happen in the fleet and commercial vehicles due to the low operating expense of these EVs. In this segment, downtime due to charging can mean lost revenue and hence postulated the use of swapping to address the charging requirements of this segment,??? he recalls.

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