Every Indian home knows the moment: the lights flicker, the fan slows, and the whole house waits for the power to come back. For decades the answer has been a bulky inverter in a corner, or a noisy diesel generator outside. Bengaluru-based Ola Electric, the company India knows for its electric scooters, has now built a very different answer — a sleek home battery that stores power when it is available and gives it back exactly when it is needed.
Unveiled on India’s 80th Independence Day, 15 August 2026, the Shakti portfolio takes Ola Electric from the driveway into the living room, the office and all the way to the power grid. It is one architecture, built around indigenous LFP battery technology and the company’s vertically integrated cell-to-system capabilities, scaled across three markets: Shakti Gen2 for homes, Shakti Rack for businesses, and Mahashakti for industry and utilities.
One architecture, from a room to a grid
The idea is simple, and it is what makes the portfolio so striking. The same battery know-how that powers Ola Electric’s scooters now stores energy drawn from the grid or from solar panels, ready to be used during an outage, at peak-demand hours, or whenever tariffs are highest. As the company’s chairman and managing director Bhavish Aggarwal put it, “Ola Shakti extends that innovation across every scale, from the home to the grid, helping India store and use clean energy intelligently.”
The home unit: Shakti Gen2
Shakti Gen2 is the residential entry point, combining battery backup, intelligent energy management and solar storage in one floor-standing system. It comes in two sizes: a 4.6 kWh model delivering 3 kW of power, and a 9.2 kWh model delivering 6 kW. The company says both give up to 1.5 hours of backup at full load, and both are modular and scalable, so households can add power and energy as their needs grow.
Everything is run from one app. The company says the app tracks energy usage and battery health, gives real-time charging insights to help optimise power bills, and lets owners control and schedule appliances such as geysers and air conditioners from a single place. A standalone MPPT solar charge controller, in 3 kW and 6 kW versions, connects the system to solar panels, and the company lists future solar compatibility across the range.
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Design has clearly been given as much thought as engineering. The unit is a compact floor-standing system with a footprint of just 0.32 square metres, silent in operation, and available in ten vivid colours in glossy and matte finishes, so it is made to sit in a living space rather than hide in a utility corner. The company’s comparison puts its energy efficiency at 95 to 98 per cent, with more than 90 per cent usable capacity and an eight-year battery lifespan, against the far lower efficiency, usable capacity and lifespan of lead-acid systems and diesel generators, with low to zero maintenance.
The 4.6 kWh model carries an introductory price of ₹99,999 and the 9.2 kWh model ₹1,74,999, with the offer running to 31 December 2026. Both can be reserved for ₹999, with deliveries scheduled to begin in November 2026.
Beyond the home: Shakti Rack and Mahashakti
For businesses, Shakti Rack extends the same storage architecture into commercial and infrastructure use. The AC Rack integrates battery and inverter into a single system, while the DC Rack interfaces directly with compatible DC infrastructure. The company says the AC Rack combines 73 kWh of storage with a three-phase inverter offering up to 50 kW of power. Both racks are modular, and the company says they will be available from March 2027.
At the top of the portfolio, Mahashakti moves Ola Shakti into industrial and grid-scale storage. Mahashakti Rack addresses large commercial and industrial loads, while the 6.26 MWh Mahashakti container is designed for utility-scale projects. The architecture can scale from a single container to gigawatt-hour-scale energy storage plants, supporting grid stability, black start capability and peak-load shifting — the heavy lifting that keeps a whole grid steady as more solar and wind power comes online.
Built on India’s own battery stack
What ties the whole range together is where it is made and how. The company says the portfolio leverages its Gigafactory, its indigenous LFP cells and its nationwide network, delivering reliable, affordable energy storage without incremental capital intensity. That is the same vertically integrated playbook that built its scooter business, now turned to a much bigger prize: giving every Indian home, business and grid a way to store clean energy and use it on their own terms.
From a scooter company to a home-to-grid energy company, Ola Electric’s Shakti range is a confident step for Indian manufacturing — power, stored in India, for India, from the living room to the grid.
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