Two EIM electric tractors at the JNPT battery swapping and charging station, one inside the swap bay under the EIM sign

Heavy mobility, reimagined.

India's first battery-swappable 55-tonne electric trucks, and the network being built so they never wait to refuel.

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Energy in Motion Ltd
Mumbai · Noida · Pune · Nhava Sheva
Energy in Motion

EIM builds India's integrated electric freight ecosystem: heavy-duty electric tractors, automated battery swapping, charging infrastructure and green energy, sold as one service to fleet owners. An associate company of Ravindra Energy Limited.

Chapter 1 · Who we are

A diesel truck's job, without the diesel.

The vehicle

The EIM‑Foton ASHWA is a 55‑tonne electric tractor built for container haulage. The battery sits behind the cab in a swappable cassette, so the fleet owner buys the truck and subscribes to the energy. Homologated by ARAI in a record seven months.

55 tGross combination weight
282 / 350kWh pack options
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EIM e-tractor shown without its battery pack beside a standing swappable battery pack, under a holographic diagram of the Maitryi business model
Chapter 1 · The model
Maitryi

Electric trucks cost far more upfront than diesel; charging takes six times longer than a fuel stop; and a thin charging map makes every route a gamble. Maitryi answers all three at once: the fleet owner buys the tractor without the pack, EIM owns the batteries and the swap‑and‑charge network, and supplies the green energy end to end.

Chapter 1 · The record

Two years from registration to a factory.

Aug 2024Jul 2025Aug 2025Sep 2025Oct 2025May 2026Jun 2026
First EV fast charger inside JNPT

First EV fast charger inside JNPT

High-capacity charging for heavy-duty fleets, inaugurated by the JNPA Chairman.
ARAI homologation in 7 months

ARAI homologation in 7 months

CMVR certification for India’s first battery-swappable 55T e-tractor (282 kWh).
First commercial sale

First commercial sale

Keys of the first EV truck handed to MICT, Mumbai. Commercial operations begin.
India’s first swappable EV truck fleet

India’s first swappable EV truck fleet

50 trucks flagged off at JNPA by Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal.
First public heavy-duty swap station

First public heavy-duty swap station

DICT, Sonipat. Inaugurated by Nitin Gadkari and H. D. Kumaraswamy.
India’s largest swap & charge station

India’s largest swap & charge station

Opened at JNPT by the JNPA Chairperson, Gaurav Dayal, IAS.
Vehicle assembly plant, Talegaon

Vehicle assembly plant, Talegaon

EIM’s own plant near Pune, opposite Talegaon MIDC Phase 5.
Journey so far

Seven milestones in twenty‑two months, from the first charger inside JNPT to EIM’s own assembly plant. The company itself was registered in March 2024.

Chapter 2 · How a swap happens

Drive in. Don't plug in.

Step 1 · Arrive

The truck rolls into the bay and stops on the marks. The station reads the truck's identity, checks the pack behind the cab, and unlocks it. The driver stays in the seat.

A gantry, not a cable.

Step 2 · Lift

An overhead crane lowers onto the depleted pack, locks in, and lifts a battery of more than two tonnes clear of the chassis. No forklifts, no hands on the pack.

The empty one goes on charge.

Step 3 · Rack

The pack slides into a charging slot in the rack and starts charging the moment it lands. That is the trick: the slow part of electric trucking happens off the truck, while the truck is somewhere else earning.

A full one comes down.

Step 4 · Return

The crane picks a charged pack from the rack, carries it back over the truck, lowers it into the mount and locks it. The truck reports the new pack, the tally updates, the bay clears.

Back on the road in under eight minutes.

Step 5 · Roll

About the time a diesel takes at the pump, against hours at a plug. The station keeps charging the pack that came off, ready for the next truck. That is why EIM's plan is measured in stations, not chargers.

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Chapter 3 · The network today

It started at the port.

West zone · NSDT

Jawaharlal Nehru Port moves the most containers in India, on short, repetitive, heavy trips: exactly the duty cycle a swappable truck wins. EIM's first swap station was commissioned at the port's Nhava Sheva Distribution Terminal, and India's first swappable EV truck fleet, fifty trucks, was flagged off there in September 2025.

Officials wave chequered flags in front of a line of EIM electric trucks at JNPA
25 Sep 2025First swappable EV truck fleet, JNPA · NSDTFlagged off by Shri Sarbananda Sonowal

Two weeks later, the North.

North zone · DICT

Station two was 1,400 km away. On 8 October 2025 the country's first public heavy‑duty swap‑cum‑charge station opened at Delhi International Cargo Terminal in Sonipat, serving the container trucks running between the inland terminal and the NCR.

Union ministers press the launch button at the inauguration of the DICT swap station
8 Oct 2025First public heavy‑duty swap station, DICT SonipatInaugurated by Shri Nitin Gadkari

A second bay at the port, and a corridor.

May 2026 · E5 + corridor

In May 2026 JNPT's second station, E5, opened as India's largest battery swapping and charging station, and the North turned into a corridor: Patli, Palwal, Rewari and Kotputli came online along the Delhi–Jaipur road within a week of each other. Seven swap stations, two zones.

Flag-off in front of EIM chargers at the JNPT swapping and charging station
2 May 2026India's largest swap & charge station, JNPT · E5Opened by Shri Gaurav Dayal, IAS, JNPA

Where they can't swap yet, they charge.

Fast charging · 18

Alongside the seven swap stations, EIM runs eighteen DC fast chargers at ten sites in four states: Mehsana, Amirgadh and Kandla in Gujarat; JNPT and both MICT terminals in Mumbai; Thiruvarur and Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu; and JSW's Shiva Cement and Lapanga plants in Odisha.

Inauguration of the first EV fast charger inside JNPT, August 2024
15 Aug 2024India's first high‑capacity EV fast charger inside JNPTInaugurated by Shri Unmesh Wagh, Chairman, JNPA

Seven live. Seventeen on the way.

Upcoming · 2026

The next seventeen sites turn two clusters into corridors. Twelve in the West, from a third bay at JNPT up the Gujarat coast; three more in the North toward Jaipur; and a new South zone with two stations between Chennai and Thanjavur.

EIM and HPCL representatives exchange the signed agreement
27 Jul 2026HPCL partnership: charging and battery swapping at retail outlets across IndiaPress release, energyinmotion.in
Chapter 4 · Tomorrow's routes

Join the ports to the hinterland.

Planned · West + North

Thirteen planned sites in the West and eight in the North stitch the two existing clusters into one Mumbai–Gujarat–Delhi spine, the same corridor India's container traffic already runs on. A truck that swaps at JNPT can keep swapping all the way to the NCR.

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A fourth zone in the East.

Planned · East zone

Ten planned stations open an East zone across Odisha and Jharkhand, where steel, minerals and the eastern ports generate the heaviest, most predictable truck traffic in the country. Same swappable truck, same eight‑minute stop.

Fifty‑five sites. Four zones.

The plan

Seven swap stations and eighteen fast chargers live today; seventeen upcoming and thirty‑one planned swap sites; and a partnership with HPCL to put swapping and charging at fuel retail outlets across India. Live sites are at their real coordinates; upcoming and planned positions are indicative and their zone counts follow EIM's network plan.

Swap Chargers Upcoming Planned
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A truck that never waits to refuel.

Talk to us

Running container, port, cement or mineral haulage on a fixed corridor? That is where swapping pays back first. Tell us the route and the daily kilometres, and we will come back with the stations, the trucks and the per‑kilometre number.

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