A Bengaluru-based EV platform startup — Tresa Energy — has begun a 12-month pilot (prototype-stage) to build a Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) called the “EV.7M RIB”. The lightweight, high-performance RIB, which can seat 18 people, will be useful for patrolling, interception, search and rescue, and transport by the Navy.
According to Tresa, the EV.7M RIB can do all of these with a higher stealth mode and cannot be detected by heat maps, as it does not generate heat or sound.
The firm has received Rs 3 crore as grant from the DIO under under MoD’s open challenge- iDEX (Innovation for Defence Excellence) to build specific EV platforms. Later, the DIO (defence innovation organization) gave a use-case to build the RIB, which pushed them to build boats.
Tresa Energy hopes to do the initial prototype test by February 2023, and deliver it to the Navy by April 2023.
Tresa, a high-performance EV platform start-up building next-generation EV powertrains and platforms, is into research, design, and manufacture of high-precision components. Its high-energy dense EV powertrains can be customised exclusively for high-end cars, buses, trucks, aerial and marine vehicles.
