Puneet Goyal

1 appearance on the record.

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14statements → 7claims → 6claims resolved → 50%fully supported → 4.07/5average certainty → 1.36/5average debate potential →

3 supported 1 partly supported 2 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

7 assertions · 7 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 6 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Puneet argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
EV chassis last 8-10 years, but batteries need replacing after four
“The body is built to last for eight to 10 years. The body is, is built to last for eight to 10 years. The battery needs to be changed after four years.”
Puneet Goyal Dec 10, 2023 ▶ 18:17 Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Puneet Goyal sold PLG Clean Energy Projects to Suzlon for $55M
“My third venture was another solar project founded PLG Cleanerji projects. We did a small 70 megaw solar power plant in Dhulen, Maastra. Again, Anmol's company, Jensol, played a part there in getting up that power plant also... Sold that to a large listed enti…”
Puneet Goyal Dec 10, 2023 ▶ 7:17 Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

none yet certainty 1
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100% certainty 3
67% certainty 4
25% certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

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Disclosure
BluSmart's charging infrastructure is profitable due to its in-house anchor fleet
“Yeah, so the charging infra is today profitable, because we had the in-house anchor tenant, so that was profitable.”
Puneet Goyal Dec 10, 2023 ▶ 25:23 Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Not checkable as stated
BluSmart recovers EV capex premiums in 14 months via fuel savings
“The additional amount I paid for buying that electric vehicle with that additional battery, I recovered that in just 14 months because my operating cost was low.”
Puneet Goyal Dec 10, 2023 ▶ 1:45:41 Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath
Disclosure
BluSmart electric cabs need ₹3,200 in daily revenue to break even
“A car should make about, to be self-sufficient, to break even on all, should make about 3200 rupees per day to cover all my costs. The car has to earn me 3200 rupees a day. It includes driver cost, lease of the car that I'm paying on daily basis.”
Puneet Goyal Dec 10, 2023 ▶ 2:50:21 Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Supported
EV chassis last 8-10 years, but batteries need replacing after four
“The body is built to last for eight to 10 years. The body is, is built to last for eight to 10 years. The battery needs to be changed after four years.”
Puneet Goyal Dec 10, 2023 ▶ 18:17 Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath
Disclosure
Goyal: BluSmart runs at ~440 crore INR ARR and 1.3-1.4 crore daily revenue
“So we are nearly 400 and 40 crores around ARR. We're doing a revenue of close to 1.3 to 1.4 crores per day revenue.”
Puneet Goyal Dec 10, 2023 ▶ 24:06 Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath
Disclosure
Goyal: BluSmart has secured vehicle financing for 20,000 EVs
“So we have secured financing for 20,000 cars as of now, right? Trying to secure financing for 40,000 cars.”
Puneet Goyal Dec 10, 2023 ▶ 25:12 Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Supported
Goyal: India's installed renewable capacity is about 175 GW
“Today, total installed capacity is about one 75 gigawatts in India.”
Puneet Goyal Dec 10, 2023 ▶ 34:44 Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Partly supported
Puneet Goyal sold a 20MW Gujarat solar plant for $68 million
“We signed a 40 megawatt power purchase agreement with the government of Gujarat, and we set up a 20 megawatt power plant. So we built that project, operated for two years, and then sold it to a large Saudi company that was looking to buy an operating asset in …”
Puneet Goyal Dec 10, 2023 ▶ 5:34 Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Contradicted
Puneet Goyal sold PLG Clean Energy Projects to Suzlon for $55M
“My third venture was another solar project founded PLG Cleanerji projects. We did a small 70 megaw solar power plant in Dhulen, Maastra. Again, Anmol's company, Jensol, played a part there in getting up that power plant also... Sold that to a large listed enti…”
Puneet Goyal Dec 10, 2023 ▶ 7:17 Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath
Disclosure
BluSmart operates a fleet of over 5,000 Tata electric cars
“BlueSmart, we have a fleet of 5000 plus Tata decor cars.”
Puneet Goyal Dec 10, 2023 ▶ 12:39 Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Supported
Setting up a 1-megawatt solar plant costs 3 to 3.25 crore
“A megawatt plant investment could be in the range of three to 3.25 crores.”
Puneet Goyal Dec 10, 2023 ▶ 21:49 Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath
Disclosure
Goyal: BluSmart ride-hailing does ~450 crore ARR, in-house charging 100 crore ARR
“The ride healing revenue is about nearly 444 50 crores per ARR. The charging revenue is about a hundred crores ARR today, but that's in-house.”
Puneet Goyal Dec 10, 2023 ▶ 24:23 Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath
Disclosure
Goyal: BluSmart adds 400-500 cars monthly, constrained by charging infra
“So, so, so we can probably add 1002 thousand cars a month. But we are not able to do that. We are only able to add 400 cars to 500 cars a month.”
Puneet Goyal Dec 10, 2023 ▶ 25:43 Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath
Assertion Contradicted
Goyal: India's annual oil import bill doubled to $120B in five years
“The numbers doubled. It was sixty billion dollars in 2018. Yeah. When we were writing the white paper for BlueSmart. Now that number is hundred and twenty billion dollars.”
Puneet Goyal Dec 10, 2023 ▶ 47:10 Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus Dec 10, 2023 26m
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