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Hardik Dhanak

Vehicle design

Navya

Client: Astro Motors
Year: 2020 — present
Role: Co-founder — design, testing, manufacturing
Status: In market

Front of the blue Navya with the finished headlight housing, on a flyover

Early white renders of the pod-shaped vehicle from four views

Pen sketch of the cargo three-wheeler with a cab and flatbed

Black and white photo of the fabricator's workshop with folded sheet-metal panels

Black and white photo of the first L3 prototype with two people beside it

CAD model of the cab structure — folded sheet-metal panels outlined in colour

Blue Navya pilot vehicle driving past on a city road, side view

Rear view of a blue Navya with its flatbed, on the road

Navya in the workshop during assembly

Yellow flatbed variant of Navya parked under trees

Pen sketches of the dashboard and speedometer housing

Sheet-metal dashboard mock-up with cut-outs

The FRP dashboard prototype fitted in the cab

CAD of the speedometer housing with the circuit board inside

Aluminium speedometer casing on a bench

Hand holding the finished speedometer cluster

The headlight mould with two round lamp openings

The headlight housing being fitted to the vehicle front on a jig

Close-up of the embossed Navya name on the headlight housing

Navya electric cargo three-wheeler on a night road test, headlights on amid long light trails

A welding fixture holding a chassis member

A cab shell on the line after ED coating

Cab shells lined up on the floor before paint

Side view of a painted blue Navya with white flatbed outside the factory

Aerial view of the Astro Motors factory floor with rows of blue three-wheelers

A line of blue passenger three-wheelers, the Nova, inside the factory

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A commuter scanning a QR code from a phone at the Ridlr validator on a Mumbai Metro gate