Dr. Prajwal Sabnis co-founded Orxa Energies in 2015 and conceived its flagship product – Mantis, a zero-emission electric performance motorcycle. He has been the architect behind building and developing innovative products at Orxa. His areas of interest lie in Electric Mobility Systems, Materials Modelling, Numerical Mechanics, and Mechatronics. Dr. Prajwal comes with an experience of 15 years. Prior to founding Orxa, he led a technology team enabling design and development of several projects in addition to achieving the complex feat of landing gear of an aircraft system using simulations. He has also worked on various engineering management positions at Safran Engineering Services and Centre Des Materiaux, France gaining technical prowess in fields such as Mechanical, Aerospace, Electric Mobility and Battery Technology.

Prajwal holds a PhD degree in Material Mechanics from MINES ParisTech, Master of Science in Computational Mechanics from University of Stuttgart and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from VTU, Bangalore. He has also published several technical papers.