Electric scooters are a huge segment in India and an ever growing one. While conventional scooters like the Activa are still king of the ring, the electric scooter has seen more adoption from the masses than any other EV segment in India. Eager to have a piece of that huge pie, Ultraviolette showcased the Tesseract in March 2025, a vision to what their EV scooter would be like. Priced at a rather expensive Rs 1.45 lakh but with the first 50000 or so customers being offered a special price of Rs 1.2 lakh (ex-showroom), this niche, boutique electric two wheeler company suddenly got mainstream attention and the bookings flew in. As of last count, about 70,000 people had booked one - including the person writing this article.
Deliveries were supposed to originally be around March 2026, then pushed to Q2 2026, which is about now, but all seemed too quiet on Ultraviolette’s front. Now though, we finally have some news on the Tesseract, and it is both good and bad.
Let us start with the bad news and get it out of the way. Deliveries for the Ultraviolette Tesseract have been pushed to early 2027. While UV hinted at a Q1 2027 release slot, they also mentioned how they were trying to roll out the scooter out of their new / upcoming factory by January 2027. The new factory will also more than double UV’s overall production capacity from about 60000 a year currently to around 1,50,000 a year - important for the likes of a mass market product like an electric scooter than will have far more adopters than say an electric sportsbike or an electric adventure tourer.
So, that is the bad news out of the way. Let’s then concentrate on the good stuff - and it is multifold here. Firstly, we met the co-founders of Ultraviolette, Narayan Subramaniam and Niraj Rajmohan in Mumbai on May 26, 2026 for an in-depth and very open discussion about the delays. Let me first say, it is refreshing to see an automaker be honest about delays and issues rather than hiding facts and making excuses (doubly so considering I am personally buying some of their upcoming products) for their delays.
Niraj, the CTO of Ultraviolette explained the delays were mainly due to the fact that the original spec they had promised, which was 20hp, was proving to be difficult to achieve in their production versions due to certain engineering constraints. While their bikes - both the F77 and the X47 have exponentially more space to package bigger batteries and larger battery control modules, the Tesseract being smaller and with storage needs was proving tougher. With the current EV architecture, the Tesseract was capping out at about 15hp, which was not enough and would not meet promises made at the showcase in 2025. The only way to make more horsepower was to completely redesign the architecture and now, when it makes it to production, the Tesseract will run a more advanced 100V architecture.
What that basically means is better power, better charging and a more future ready platform from Ultraviolette, even more advanced technically than the motorcycle platforms it currently has in production. The Tesseract will also be equipped with a Type 6 charger, which was a given considering UV’s recent partnership with Bolt and the fact that their bikes run on this type of charger too and it is generally the most popular two-wheeler / three wheeler charger in India. The Tesseract will also support 12kW fast charging, which is going to be a boon considering a small battery pack + fast charging means really quick turnaround charge times.
We also now have some other details on the Tesseract, which are rather interesting. We know the 0-60kmph times are about 2.5 seconds, but we can now also tell you that the top speed of this electric scooter is 125kmph and it has been electronically capped. The engineering team has confirmed that the scooter can actually make more power and can be faster if need be in the future.
From what we saw at the showcase last year, Ultraviolette claims that the scooter will retain almost 95 per cent of its design elements, however, for the sake of ergonomics, a few key changes have been made. First, the handle bars are now a little taller giving the Tesseract a more upright sport stance. Second, the Tesseract now gets a small front windscreen, a design element that was absent in the concept version. The Tesseract will also get a larger pillion seat that is more comfortable and seat height is estimated at about 770mm. Ultraviolette has also reduced the width of the legrest or floor to make it easier for shorter riders to place their feel to the ground while coming to a halt.
There have also been weight savings of about 6-8kg on some new, more modern and lightweight components that have been used on the new architecture, but the Tesseract will still weight in at about 130kg, which isn’t too light. It will also stick to the 14-inch aerodisc style wheels and will offer dual channel ABS and traction control on all variants, while the higher variants will get radar, possibly making this the most advanced production scooter in world.
Now, there is no doubt this extra delay for nearly a whole year will annoy a large cross section of buyers of the Ultraviolette Tesseract, and I am sure UV will announce a plan for refunding people who want to cancel their bookings, but frankly, it is always better to wait slightly to get a well designed, well engineered and well tested product rather than one that is rushed to the market haphazardly to be guinea pigs instead. Frankly, as an Indian buyer, we have been treated to the latter by far too many two-wheeler and four-wheeler OEMS so as mentioned earlier, it is always better to have an Indian OEM be honest about their delays and own them rather than making an excuse, or many.
