Pratik Gupta co-founded Gensol Electric Vehicles (formerly Strom Motors) with big ambitions: build India’s affordable EV cars and last-mile cargo platforms designed for Indian roads. His background spans solar energy, embedded systems, and innovation labs, leading custom EV tech and analytics from idea to prototype.

He led the company through bold launches like the Ezio micro-EV platform, built to offer fleet efficiency at lower costs. But in early 2025, Gensol EV’s operations came to a halt amid financial challenges and regulatory scrutiny. Pratik personally informed the team about the company’s shutdown, which followed an interim investigation highlighting discrepancies between projected scale and real production capacity.

Through that difficult chapter, Pratik remained candid in interviews and upfront in navigating the fallout, reaffirming a lesson he often shares: innovation matters only if it’s delivered, operated responsibly, and built on reality.

He isn’t defined by the headlines. He’s defined by the willingness to build toward clean mobility in real conditions, even when the journey doesn’t go as planned.