Ultraviolette Automotive, a Bengaluru electric-motorcycle maker, introduced its X-47 Crossover in September 2025 as — in the company’s words — the world’s first electric motorcycle with integrated radar technology as standard. Its UV HyperSense radar suite adds rear-collision warning, blind-spot detection, lane-change assist and overtake alerts, alongside integrated front and rear dashcams, according to the company’s official launch film — essentially ADAS, long a four-wheeler preserve, engineered onto two wheels.
Radar on two wheels
Rider-assist systems have been almost entirely absent from motorcycles, where a rear-ender or a blind-spot miss can be fatal and where packaging sensors is far harder than on a car. Ultraviolette’s answer, unveiled at the X-47 launch, is the UV HyperSense suite: radar-driven rear-collision warning, blind-spot detection, lane-change assist and overtake alerts, plus front and rear dashcams integrated into the bike’s electronics, per the company’s launch film. The “world’s first” framing is the company’s own claim — worth noting because a new base variant launched in May 2026 at ₹2.49 lakh drops the radar hardware entirely, so HyperSense is standard on the radar-equipped variants rather than across the whole range.
The engineering underneath
The X-47’s claimed hardware figures, per the company: a 30 kW motor putting down a claimed 610 Nm at the rear wheel, 0–60 km/h in 2.7 seconds, a 145 km/h top speed, 323 km of IDC range and 200 mm of ground clearance — crossover territory, not a track toy. The machine sits on Ultraviolette’s own EV platform, the fruit of roughly seven years of in-house R&D, and shares engineering DNA with the F77 Mach 2 flagship, whose spec sheet lists 30 kW peak power, 100 Nm peak torque, 155 km/h top speed, 323 km IDC range (231 km WMTC) and an SRB-10 battery the company says has been tested over 6,000,000 km with a 5-year/100,000 km warranty, according to the company’s official specifications.
From Bengaluru to Europe
Founded in 2015 by Narayan Subramaniam and Niraj Rajmohan, the startup is also one of the few Indian EV hardware companies selling abroad: the first batch of F77 Mach 2 bikes for EU markets was flagged off from its Bengaluru manufacturing facility on 24 September 2024 by Union Minister H D Kumaraswamy and Karnataka Minister M B Patil, reported The Economic Times. The company has since launched in 10 European nations via a Paris debut — CNBC TV18 calls it the first Indian EV bike maker to do so — extended to Spain and Portugal through distributor Rhino Electric Motors for a total of 12 European markets, and brought the X-47 to Nepal at the NAIMA Nepal Mobility Expo, per CNBC TV18. Official company material also lists the UK, Ireland, India, Nepal and Türkiye as active markets.
Here’s the official X-47 launch film from the company’s own channel:
Still: a Bengaluru startup that has moved from a seven-year R&D build to exported, homologated hardware on two continents — and then put the first production radar suite on an electric motorcycle — is exactly the kind of engineering-first story worth noting.
