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NUBOD ENERGY

For India’s manufacturers

Electric freight, zero capex.

We fund, run and power electric trucks for factories. You pay per kilometre, on multi-year contracts priced against what diesel costs you today.

CleanMax did it for factory power. We do it for freight.

₹0upfront spend, no trucks, chargers or depots to buy
~30 tCO2 avoided per truck each year when charged on clean power*
≤ Dieselfreight cost per km, locked in a 2 to 3 year contract

*Estimate for a 9-tonne-payload truck running 60,000 to 75,000 km a year, charged on solar or wind power.

Why now

₹99.56diesel per litre in Bengaluru, Oct 2026
<1%of new trucks in India are electric
3% to 53%trucks are 3% of vehicles but 53% of road particulate emissions

How it works

Three steps, and we carry the rest.

  1. 1

    You sign a per-km contract

    Two to three years, priced against your current diesel cost. No trucks to buy, no depot to build.

  2. 2

    We buy the trucks, lenders fund them

    Complete e-trucks from leading Indian truck makers, financed against your contract.

  3. 3

    We run everything else

    Charging, routing, drivers, uptime, and a monthly Scope 3 report for every lane.

What you get

One contract, the whole operation.

  • Electric trucks on your lanes

  • Charging depots

  • Clean power (rooftop solar and solar or wind PPAs)

  • Routing and uptime

  • Driver management

  • Scope 3 reporting per lane

Levers and impact

Six levers take an electric truck below diesel

Bought today and run the way an owner-driver runs one, a nine-tonne-payload electric truck costs ₹36.6 a kilometre against diesel’s ₹32.2. It loses. Six things we control close that gap and go past it: how the truck is financed, what it charges on, how far it runs in a day, how well it is driven and maintained, what the battery is worth at the end, and the incentive. None is decisive alone — the first four reach ₹32.4, still a shade above diesel. The fifth and sixth are what put it clearly underneath, at ₹26.4, which is what lets us sign a per-kilometre contract at or below what diesel costs you and still fund the truck.

Electric, before the levers₹36.6per km
Diesel ₹32.2

Today's EV loan, 200 km a day, no incentive claimed

Contract-backed financeMonth 9−₹1.0

The shipper's contract comes first, the truck sits in an asset SPV, and buyback cover makes a six-year loan at 12.5% possible instead of four years at 16%.

Clean-power depotMonth 12−₹0.8

Keep the depot full and charge in solar hours. Power is budgeted at ₹7.50 a kWh all-in, not at the ₹4.50 energy-only tariff.

250 km a day on contractMonth 6−₹2.4

Dedicated milk runs with back-hauls, priced by lane. A committed daily distance spreads the truck's fixed cost over far more kilometres.

Data-driven operationsTruck 1−₹1.5

Driver coaching, predictive maintenance and an OEM service contract with uptime clauses: less energy per km, and lower upkeep and insurance.

Battery life and resaleTruck 10−₹3.2

Battery health data from day one, charging discipline, and buyback and second-life deals. The largest of the six, and the one lenders price.

PM E-DRIVE incentiveBy Mar 2028−₹1.3

₹5,000 per kWh, capped at a tenth of ex-factory price, claimed through the dealer. The scheme runs to 31 March 2028.

Electric, with all six₹26.4per km

What the per-km contract is priced against

The dotted line is diesel. Levelised cost per kilometre over eight years for a 9-tonne-payload (~16T GVW) truck bought in FY2027-28: a ₹49 lakh e-truck against a ₹24.8 lakh Tata T.16 Ultra diesel, depot power at ₹7.50 a kWh all-in, 300 operating days a year. Diesel on the same six steps is ₹32.2 a km, and ₹34.7 on the conservative ones. Derived from our own TCO model; the same bridge appears in our investor deck.

Who we work with

  • Manufacturers

    Plants moving 9-tonne loads daily on short, fixed routes.

  • Clean power developers

  • Fleet lenders and battery partners

  • Climate investors

Founder

Ujjawal Rahangdale

Has priced freight lanes, run delivery fleets and built software for shippers.

  • Freight pricing, BlackBuck
  • Fleet operations, Swiggy
  • Freight billing SaaS, Intugine
  • B.Tech (Hons) Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur
  • Executive programme, IIM Bangalore
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