The Pune-based family enterprise Tork Motorcycles is gearing up to launch the country's first electric motorcycle under brand T6X with a claim to offer 100 km travel on a single charge that can vroom at 85 km per hour. The Pune-based company, partly owned by entrepreneur Kapil Shelke and his father, and funded by two angel investors -- Ankit Bhati and Bhavesh Agrawal of Ola Cabs in their personal capacities -- has so far developed five prototypes of electric bike and the one it plans to commercialise is the fifth model called T6X.
Shelke is a mechanical engineer from the Pune University and started the firm in 2009. He, however, did not offer any financial details about his family's investments or those by the angel investors. It did not showcase the product, but is awaiting ARAI clearance and looking at a commercial launch in about two months.