India’s first fully-electric Naked Sports bike

– MANTIS – unveiled at India Bike Week 2019

~ ORXA’s first bike to be launched mid-2020 in Bengaluru ~

Goa, 6^th December 2019: The 2019 edition of India Bike Week began with a bang as the first bike revved into the main area – The MANTIS; India’s first fully-electric street bike. Coming from ORXA Energies, a Performance Electric Vehicle & Energy Systems startup, The MANTIS is styled as a Naked-Sports Fully-Electric Street Bike aimed at rapidly electrifying all transport. Orxa MANTIS e-bike. 

ORXA Energies, founded in August 2015 by Dr Prajwal Sabnis and Ranjita Ravi, is a boot-strapped company that emerged from Airbus Bizlab, the start-up accelerator of the Aerospace giant, Airbus. The idea of ORXA stemmed from Prajwal’s passion for developing a performance electric solution to his home-town, Bengaluru’s pollution problem, and

Ranjita’s dream to make sustainability a profitable business model. From developing a germ of an idea in 2013 to entering into a self-imposed silent period in 2017, that allowed ORXA to focus on product development, target specifications, R&D, filing patents, and securing funding, the company has traversed a long journey to unveil their first-ever bike before the strong biking community.

Speaking about the launch, Ranjita Ravi and Dr Prajwal Sabnis, Co-Founders, ORXA Energies said, “We are proud to launch the MANTIS, the first-of-its-kind fully-electric street bike in India right now. The MANTIS is a Naked-Sports performance electric motorcycle which is set for its commercial launch in mid-2020. Our aim, since inception, has been to provide a credible & seamless electric alternative to serious bikers. Designed as a no-compromise alternative and a seamless shift from ICEs to EVs, The MANTIS is designed with as an engineering-driven, performance-oriented, and customer-validated motorcycles. We are driven to change the popular perception about EVs i.e. inadequate range, inferior performance and weak acceleration. And with The MANTIS, we believe we have a winner.”

After this first look, ORXA will be commercially launched in Bengaluru, followed by other Indian cities with a strong biking culture as well as an early-adopter culture. The philosophy of the bike is No-Compromise as no one should have to change their lifestyle or habits to fit an EV, and Seamless because the experience of riding a Mantis should be a seamless experience for the rider.

The frame of The MANTIS is an all-aluminium one that has been designed with great detail. Getting the weight, handling & ease of throwing the bike around turns perfect have been challenging, especially given the massive 9kWh battery pack. The MANTIS will give its riders 200 km of range on real riding conditions (not idealized).

Orxa MANTIS e-bike Specifications

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