Tarun Mehta

7 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 10, 2023 by Tarun Mehta · across every show →

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Dec 10, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
The raw material inside a 4 kWh EV battery costs $240
“Just the material alone in a typical four kilowatt battery pack is about 240 dollars today. About 60 dollars a kilowatt. This is the raw material inside.”
Tarun Mehta Dec 10, 2023 ▶ 2:28:13 Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath
Dec 10, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Every EV subscription startup quietly pivoted into an auto-financing company
“Every company who's talked about cracking subscription, quickly, quietly became a financing company. Everybody.”
Tarun Mehta Dec 10, 2023 ▶ 3:06:28 Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath
Dec 10, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mehta: Indian EV battery recycling will have guaranteed demand in 10-15 years
“So you set up recycling. I think it is such a stable business. It's two fifty million vehicles going to go to three fifty million vehicles and annually out of that three, thirty million is going to come back. And 1015 years later, a very large chunk of that wi…”
Tarun Mehta Dec 10, 2023 ▶ 2:30:47 Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath
Dec 10, 2023
Assertion Supported
Mehta: Ather Energy's first patent was for a swappable battery pack
“The first patent we filed at Aether was a swappable battery pack.”
Tarun Mehta Dec 10, 2023 ▶ 1:28:42 Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath
Dec 10, 2023 neutral
Insight
Mehta: High-end EVs over ₹40 lakh lack ROI unless driven 100km daily
“The problem is the asset cost of an electric car is so high, that the kilometer saving is only worth it if you buy a car in the 10 to 20 lakh range. If you buy like a 80 lakh, 40, even a 40 lakh electric car, you don't have an ROI. Unless you run it like a hun…”
Tarun Mehta Dec 10, 2023 ▶ 2:52:33 Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath
Dec 10, 2023 neutral
Prediction Partly held up
Mehta: Carbon Tax Is Headed to India
“I'm almost certain a carbon tax is headed our way in India.”
Tarun Mehta Dec 10, 2023 ▶ 2:58:06 Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath
Jan 28, 2026 negative
Insight
Tarun Mehta: Good founders ignore Y Combinator advice and follow internal conviction
“Most good founders will be largely driven by their own thoughts. Most good founders are never doing the, what is the current advice or what is the current YC yarn to people. That's for mass consumption. That's content strategy. That's not a good advice on aver…”
Tarun Mehta Jan 28, 2026 ▶ 0:24 17 Young Founders | 8 Startups | 20 Lakh Grants | Third WTFund Cohort · Nikhil Kamath
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