India’s heaviest freight still runs on diesel — cement, clinker, ore, steel coils and aluminium moving in 55-tonne loads, day after day, on some of the country’s toughest routes. Qucev, a Hyderabad company founded in 2022, is building the electric alternative for exactly that work: a full range of electric trucks and vans, from a 3.5-tonne light commercial vehicle to a 55-tonne electric tractor, designed and assembled in India for Indian roads, duty cycles and economics.
The range is the story. Where most electric commercial vehicle makers stop at last-mile delivery vans, Qucev stretches across the whole freight ladder. Its portfolio includes the QC3 delivery and refrigerated vans, the Q28 haulage truck, the Q55 electric tractor and the QM7 electric transit mixer — vehicles for logistics, manufacturing, construction and cold-chain operations, backed by charging support, financing partnerships, fleet tracking and after-sales service.
That breadth is already working in the real world. The company says its fleet has clocked more than 1.3 million kilometres of operations across more than 20 enterprise customers, with a service network spanning 20 cities. Its customer list, shown on the company’s own site, includes DHL, Blue Dart, Mondelez, Godrej, Cipla, Hindalco and Wonder Cement — and in June 2026, Wonder Cement inducted ten of Qucev’s Q55 55-tonne electric tractors, paired with custom dump trailers, into its fleet for heavy-duty haulage.
Built on proven battery technology, assembled in Hyderabad
At the core of every Qucev vehicle is battery technology engineered for safety, performance and long life. The company says its heavy commercial range is powered by the patented BYD Blade Battery, built on lithium iron phosphate (LFP) chemistry — a chemistry renowned for thermal stability and long service life — while its light commercial range carries the highest-capacity battery pack in its segment. Combined with fast charging of up to 320 kW through dual CCS2, the company says a full charge takes about an hour, keeping high-utilisation fleets moving shift after shift.
The vehicles are built at Qucev’s Hyderabad plant, which the company says has an annual capacity of 4,800 electric light commercial vehicles and an initial 2,400 heavy commercial vehicles a year. The heavy trucks are deployed through logistics service providers to end users in cement, aluminium and steel, hauling clinker, ore, coal, cement and aluminium coils, while the lighter vehicles serve dairy, fresh food, furniture, pharma and general logistics. Qucev unveiled its electric transit mixer at EXCON 2025, and the company says that while an electric mixer costs more upfront than a diesel one, its far lower operating costs make the total cost of ownership comparable.
The people behind the trucks
Qucev was founded by N.K. Rawal, its founder, MD and CEO, a seasoned automotive leader with more than three decades of industry experience who was part of the pioneering team that built India’s first electric bus company. Anil Bhan, co-founder and COO, brings deep expertise in electric vehicle technology, manufacturing and commercial deployment. Together they lead a team of more than 100, plus the plant workforce, and the company is growing to meet its plans.
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The company’s ambitions are backed by serious capital: Qucev raised ₹131.25 crore in a Series B round led by Singularity AMC, with the funds earmarked for plant capacity, new product development and working capital. For 2026, the company’s stated focus is to ramp up deliveries of its light commercial vehicles and 55-tonne tractors, begin deliveries of the 28-tonne haulage truck and the transit mixer, and expand into more applications, industries and geographies.
India’s freight sector is one of the hardest parts of transport to clean up — heavy loads, long hours and relentless duty cycles leave no room for vehicles that cannot keep up. Qucev’s bet is that an electric truck built for those exact conditions, supported by charging, financing and service as one complete system, can win fleet operators over on economics alone. With more than a million kilometres already behind it and heavy tractors hauling cement in Rajasthan, that bet is moving from promise to proof, one load at a time.
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