Smartron to foray into automobile sector with Volta Motors

Smartron, India’s first global IoT brand, has announced that it will invest in Volta Motors, a Chennai based automotive start-up company that is designing and developing sustainable electric vehicles for India and the global market.  This company will be eventually christened as Tron Motors, a Smartron Company. This also marks a collaboration of two start-ups that aims on building an Indian brand in the global product market place.

Volta Motors has so far designed and developed India’s first cross-over electric bike ‘VOLTA ZAP’. Under the aegis of this new company the team will accelerate the development, manufacturing and commercialisation of these vehicles. The company also intends to bring out a range of IoT enabled electric vehicles that will be designed, engineered, and manufactured in India for India and the world. It will also redefine the lifestyle segment of mobility by being sustainable and promote healthy living.

This strategic investment is a part of Smartron’s approach to build broader product ecosystem under its AI powered tronx IoT platform. Smartron is extending its tronx platform across range of verticals starting from smart home, personalized health, smart energy, intelligent vehicles, smart farming and infrastructure, to bring-in next generation of smart devices, sensors, services and care to consumer, enterprise, industrial and infrastructure markets.

Smartron earlier launched its t.phone smartphone in May 2016. The phone comes with a 5.5-inch touchscreen display, powered by 1.6GHz octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor and it comes with 4GB of RAM.