Every electric motorcycle in India has lived with the same quiet frustration: the country’s fast chargers were built for cars, and bikes could not use them. A Chennai startup spent seven years fixing that by borrowing the electric car’s own playbook — car-grade voltage, a car charging plug, and car-level warranties — and putting it all into a motorcycle. It is called the T30, and its maker, Raptee.HV, says it is India’s first high-voltage electric motorcycle.
Car DNA, motorcycle soul
The trick is voltage. Almost every electric two-wheeler in India runs on a low-voltage 48V to 72V system, which is why they need their own slow chargers and proprietary plugs. Raptee.HV built the T30 around a 240-volt high-voltage powertrain — the same architecture electric cars use — under its patented HV-TEC platform. Higher voltage means lower current for the same power, which means less heat, and that is what lets the bike plug straight into the public DC fast chargers built for cars. The company says the T30 is the only electric two-wheeler in India compatible with the CCS2 car-charging standard, and its ARAI certification in March 2025 made that official.
The numbers the company publishes tell the story: a 22 kW motor with 70 Nm of instant torque, a top speed of 135 km/h, and 0 to 60 km/h in 3.5 seconds — performance the company pitches against 250cc to 300cc petrol motorcycles. The 5.4 kWh battery pack is rated for an estimated 200 km on the Indian Driving Cycle, with the company putting real-world range at more than 150 km. Charging is where the car DNA really shows: 20% to 80% in about 36 minutes at a public CCS2 fast charger, a 15-minute stop adding up to 50 km of range, and a built-in onboard charger that fills the same stretch from an ordinary household socket in about an hour. The battery carries an 8-year or 80,000 km warranty, and the motorcycle itself 3 years or 30,000 km.
Seven years from sketch to street
Raptee.HV was founded in Chennai in 2019 by Dinesh Arjun, a former Tesla engineer, along with three co-founders, with a single mission: to bring electric-car technology to two-wheelers. The T30 was launched in October 2024, and the company says it drew more than 8,000 registrations, enough to meet its first-year sales plan. Large-scale customer deliveries began in Chennai on 26 February 2026, with Bengaluru following from April. Before that, the company says a T30 covered 7,530 km across India in 19 days, charging only at public stations along the way — a rolling demonstration that the bike really can live on the car-charging network, which the company notes now spans more than 22,000 locations across India.
From Chennai to the country
The next chapter opened on 11 November 2026, when Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay virtually inaugurated Raptee.HV’s three-storey flagship experience centre on Old Mahabalipuram Road in Chennai, where buyers can inspect the high-voltage powertrain, meet the engineers and take test rides. The company already has a retail presence in Bengaluru, with Coimbatore, Kochi and Hyderabad next. Behind the showrooms, the company says it is building about 100 motorcycles a month at its Manapakkam facility in Chennai, rising to around 300 a month by March, and it has a 40-acre site allocated by the state government at Cheyyar for a much larger plant. The company is also in the final stages of closing a Rs 150 crore funding round, and it has received Rs 25 crore of capital support from the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation. The T30 is priced at Rs 2,39,000 ex-showroom, in four colours: Horizon Red, Arctic White, Mercury Grey and Eclipse Black.
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