Achiever's Success Story
“Dr. Aditya Banerjee,Chief Executive Officer, Cosmo World”
As it is rightly said, “Leadership is more who you are than what you do.”Meet Dr. Aditya Banerjee, an enterprising entrepreneur, who has always been keen on innovating and transforming ways of doing business. He always brings something new to the table with “Let’s Do It” Attitude. Throughout the last decade, he has been managing, conceptualising and leading different businesses,like, dairy, agriculture, retail, hospitality, portfolio management, stock trading, EduTech, Meditech, Blockchain, Astrology, AI enabled Applications and Services and electric mobility. Urge to contribute towards saving the coming generations from the clutches of deteriorating natural environment on the planet has led him to focus on developing and evolving a complete ecosystem in the e-Mobility and the Electric Vehicle(EV) space and hence, the brand “SAHARA EVOLS” was born. Apart from this, through Cosmo World, he is working on fusion of the science of Astrology with the emerging technologies like Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
“Through ecosystem building, we strive to bring a real change to the lives of basic income groups and this will be real testimony to the success of our work.”
-Dr. Aditya Banerjee, Co-Founder and CEO, Cosmo World.
Sahara Evols is the e-mobility initiative of Cosmo World. The idea is to leverage an exhaustive and penetrative network of consumers and scale to amalgamate different stakeholders and build a robust and responsive ecosystem for electric vehicles across the country; what he calls as the “Ecosystem Approach”. Sahara Evols’ strength lies in its network and the brand-name which they are leveraging to accelerate India’s transition to e-mobility. Not going the traditional way, Sahara Evols has collaborated with a number of established and lesser known brands of the EV Industry for exclusive products. It was a conscious and strategic call to focus on post sales services rather than entering into manufacturing. However, Manufacturing too is going to be the focus in years to come as Sahara Evols evolve with time.
Starting during mid-2018, Sahara Evols today has established presence in 20 states and 150 cities across India, where electric vehicles co-branded with partner OEMs are sold through more than 195 dealerships. The company currently has tie-ups with some leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and has also established a country-wide network of more than 350 electric vehicle service centres. The company was selling around 2,000 vehicles per month before the lockdown.
Sahara Evols provides a well organised sales channel to the OEMs through its network of dealerships that sell EVs from multiple manufacturers under one roof. Sahara Evols has helped new players develop their own sales and service channels by providing a ready dealership network to reach out to their potential customers even in the Tier 2 and Tier 3 Cities and not just the metros.
Sahara Evols has future plans of entering into the battery swapping services space with a pilot in its home town Lucknow and plans to expand the same to the rest of the country by partnering with battery players.The company aspires to create new entrepreneurship opportunities through its dealership and service network, and self-employment through its efforts in EV training for drivers and service mechanics.