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Netradyne has joined hands with the National Highways for Electric Vehicles (NHEV) to provide real-time fleet visibility, predictive risk detection, driver behaviour insights and operational monitoring for commercial EVs travelling across India’s e-highways.NHEV is working on transforming India’s highways into e-highways that are designed to support connected and dependable electric mobility at scale, with expansion planned across 26 highway corridors by 2027. It is working to build a commercially viable long-distance EV ecosystem in India, leveraging an integrated approach combining charging infrastructure, energy management, digital systems, financing enablement and operational support.As part of the association, Netradyne’s AI platform will add a critical intelligence and safety layer through driver behaviour analytics, vehicle monitoring and corridor-level operational oversight for commercial EVs operating across NHEV-enabled corridors.Abhijeet Sinha, Programme Director of NHEV, told businessline: “The world has seen what broken supply chains and oil shocks can do to an economy. NHEV e-highways are India’s preparedness driven economic lifeline, ensuring that the movement of essential goods never stops, whether during peacetime, lockdowns, or geopolitical oil crises impacting global supply chains.”India’s E-Highway vision is not only about the charging infrastructure layer, but also about building a connected and trusted mobility ecosystem to gain the confidence of the commercial EV and freight transport sector, he emphasised.“This electronic layer will play a critical role in improving driver safety, reducing accidents, enabling predictive risk detection, and strengthening operational reliability for freight fleet operators and passengers alike,” Sinha notedPartners like Netradyne are strengthening the intelligence layer that helps make this network operationally dependable, bankable, and commercially viable at scale, he stressed.The initiative also builds credible and scalable policy recommendations with real-world validation and implementation for the Group of Transport Experts (GTE) to contribute to India’s broader connected mobility priorities of the vision of the Prime Minister’s Office to create an apex transport authority and the convergence of transport, telecom and digital infrastructure.Durgadutt Nedungadi, Senior VP of EMEA & APAC Business at Netradyne, said: “Our role is to provide real-time intelligence that improves driver safety, fleet visibility and operational responsiveness across these e-highways. By enabling early detection of driver fatigue, unsafe behaviour and vehicle distress, we can help reduce road risk and make long-haul EV operations safer and more reliable.”For fleet operators and financiers, the collaboration is designed to create a stronger trust framework for long-distance EV adoption through safer journeys, improved fleet uptime, operational visibility and better asset reliability.By combining NHEV’s integrated highway infrastructure and support architecture with Netradyne’s AI-driven safety intelligence, the ecosystem aims to make commercial EV operations more dependable, scalable, bankable, viable, profitable and sustainable.NHEV is a pilot project adopted by the Centre in 2024 to upgrade highways into E-highways. It has completed technology trials on key corridors including Delhi–Agra, Delhi–Jaipur and Chennai–Trichy, validating scalable EV charging and roadside support solutions.The project is expanding towards a 5,500-km nationwide E-Highway network under Bharatmala and Sagarmala, enabling seamless, decarbonised mobility via hybrid PPP models.Published on June 3, 2026
