Vavye Mobility reenvisions urban mobility with solar-powered electric cars

With its innovative solar power–enabled electric vehicles, Vayve Mobility is making personal transportation more sustainable and accessible for urban dwellers.

Autodesk Video

May 7, 2025

As the automotive industry shifts away from internal combustion engines, automakers are seeking ways to make electric vehicles more accessible, practical, and sustainable.
Vayve Mobility, an electric car company based in Pune, India, is focused on creating new, sustainable mass market solutions for urban mobility, powered in part by solar energy.
The company has two EV prototypes with rooftop solar panels: Eva, a small, personal car; and CT5, a compact urban taxi.
Vayve uses Autodesk Fusion as an end-to-end design and build platform for taking its vehicles from design to prototype to manufacturing.

In the world’s densely populated urban centers, transportation is a growing challenge—one that’s complicated by concerns over congestion, air quality, and carbon emissions. Vavye Mobility, based in Pune, India, aims to address these issues with electric vehicles that are compact, sustainable, and affordable. With innovative rooftop solar panels capable of providing energy to the electric power trains, Vayve’s vehicles are designed to provide access and mobility for urban residents without the harmful environmental impacts of traditional internal combustion vehicles.

In this video, Co-Founders Nilesh Bajaj and Vilas Deshpande discuss the company’s Eva and CT5 vehicles and how Autodesk Fusion has helped them control costs and boost efficiency through digitized processes and rapid prototyping.

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Nilesh Bajaj, Co-Founder and CEO, Vayve Mobility: The automotive industry is at a cusp of a major shift, a change maybe that happens once in a hundred years as we make a move from internal combustion engines to the electric power train. Vayve is very excited to be a part of this transition.

Vilas Deshpande, Co-Founder and COO, Vayve Mobility: Vayve Mobility is an electric car company focused on the mass market for urban mobility. What we want to do is to bring that equality of access to more people. Today, people mostly rely on a two-wheeler, but having the convenience and comfort of a car really takes that to the next level.

Deshpande: Now it is ergonomically quite nice to be opening this way. Right? Okay.

Deshpande: We have detailed engineering prototypes of two city vehicles. For Eva, it was very clear. We are making a personal car. We want a narrow vehicle because you can weave through traffic much easier. That square meter of solar panel on the roof can generate one kilowatt hour of energy per day in average Indian conditions. This is kind of the holy grail of the industry.

Deshpande: The other vehicle that we are building is the CT5 electric taxi. CT5 stands for city taxi for five passengers. Shared mobility is a huge deal in India. We are talking about cars that maybe top out at 30 miles per hour, and most of their time on the road is 10 miles per hour. An electric taxi does that job brilliantly.

Bajaj: Fusion is really helping us bring our product to the market faster. And I don’t call it just a software or a tool, but a complete end-to-end design and build platform that can take our products from prototyping, development, validation, to manufacturing.

Bajaj: As a company, we have to keep the cost in control. By using Fusion, we were able to digitize a lot of early prototyping and reviews that normally a legacy OEM would do as a physical model. Fusion has given us flexibility to work with multiple data formats. We are able to import our data from our previous software seamlessly into the Fusion environment.

Bajaj: The cloud nativeness of the software enabled us to collaborate, not just within the team, but also with our vendor partners. We can see the progress of the whole model as it is coming along while the development is happening, and not as an afterthought.

Deshpande: The day that we finished our prototype and were able to roll CT5 on the road, there’s a sense of, oh my god, we did it. This is really something that I have been aspiring to do all my life, and that is to enable the adoption of electric cars in India and in markets outside India.

Deshpande: But it goes beyond that. The more access somebody has to mobility, they have access to better education for their kids, they have better access to jobs for themselves, and better access to their community so that they can take care of each other. That’s really what keeps me going.