Electric Car Reva

The group's products ranged from precision components to in-plant material handling equipment and, from granites to abrasives. The group was also involved in international trading and offered ERP solutions. Maini Group had technological agreements with Abressa (Spain), Clark-Blue Giant (US), Hensel (Germany), HIAB (Sweden) and STILL (UK). Some of the major clients of the group included General Motors, Bosch, BT, MIC, OMR and other Indian companies in the automobiles, consumer goods, engineering, and food processing and pharmaceuticals industries. The group was known for its quality standards and its plants had ISO 9001 and QS 9000 certification. Chetan Maini (Chetan), son of Sudarshan, the chairman of the Maini Group, was always fascinated with cars and designed his first car during his school days...

Amerigon helped RECC in building the chassis of Reva. The car was manufactured at RECC's plants at Bommasandra in Bangalore. The car's key technologies included its steel frame, the energy management system and a motor controller. The motor controller was developed through a technical collaboration with Curtis, one of the world's leading manufacturers of motor controller for electric vehicles. In 1996, RECC built the first prototype for Reva and received the mandatory certification. The prototype was also put through the 250,000 km 'shaker test' at the Automobile Research Association of India (ARAI), Pune. It was also tested at ARAI for homologation and was certified for road-worthiness. The prototypes were also tested in the US...