Cargo Breaking News
Infraprime Logistics Technologies, the electric truck and construction logistics start-up, is planning to catalyse investment of US$ 200 million to electrify and organise construction logistics in India. The three-year-old company has grown to over US$ 50m in terms of annualised gross logistics value of the contracts being executed. The investment by the company would go in expanding the marketplace for construction logistics all over India, in establishing a state-of-the-art platform for vehicle servicing, charging and maintenance, and towards plant automation. Fleet operators, charging network franchisee owners and banks would be playing their part via purchase and financing of various assets.
The investment would add over US$ 1 billion in annual margins to stakeholders across the value chain. As per a report by KPMG, the construction sector is expected to be a US$ 1 trillion industry by 2025 and is expected to engage one million heavy duty trucks. The company plans to showcase through its investment that all these one million heavy duty trucks can be replaced with electric trucks. The country wide displacement would need a charging network spanning 2,000 sites across 500+ routes.
Electric trucks can generate four times as much margins as a corresponding diesel truck. With introduction of BS VI, the prices of diesel trucks have gone up which creates a compelling case for electric trucks.
The company’s electric trucks are priced at twice the price of a corresponding diesel truck. The company launched its first electric truck model “Rhino 5536″ in August 2019, which immediately garnered eyeballs. The company is planning to soon launch a 37 MT GCW model and a 28 MT GCW model.
