It has been nearly 15 months since Ultraviolette first launched its Tesseract electric scooter with the promise that deliveries would begin by Q1 2026. That deadline was subsequently pushed to Q2 2026, and the company has now revealed that the scooter will arrive by Q1 2027. While this will surely come as frustrating news to tens of thousands of customers who hold bookings, there is a rather bright silver lining.
Ultraviolette tells us that the delays are due to the fact that its engineers ran into technical difficulties. The original plan was to use the tried-and-tested powertrain platform from the F77 and X-47, but the company realised there were significant packaging restrictions with a scooter form factor. Due to space and thermal constraints, the company faced the choice of either making a big reduction in the promised 30-litre boot space or reducing the 15kW figure quoted upon launch to 10kW.
As it had done in the past, UV did not want to compromise and chose to go back to the drawing board. The result was designing a completely new high-voltage architecture, which meant starting from scratch with critical components such as the motor controller, BMS, vehicle control unit and more. An endeavour like this takes time, and that’s what leads us to the current situation.
Moving to a higher-voltage architecture (UV’s current EV bikes are below 50 volts) brings multiple benefits. These include the use of more compact and light components, as well as the ability to offer higher power more consistently. Most significant to customers will be that this new vehicle architecture will enable faster charging, although the company hasn’t yet revealed the exact details.
UV promises a top speed of 125kph, and they showed us videos of the Tesseract comprehensively beating every single locally manufactured scooter (petrol and electric) in a drag race. The Tesseract was even able to do the same thing with a pillion rider on board, and it also beat multiple 150-200cc bikes in a separate race. It appears that the Tesseract will comfortably be the highest-performing Indian scooter, but we’ll wait until we can verify that ourselves with the production version.
The company conducted multiple clinics after the 2025 launch and made a few changes based on customer feedback. These include revisions to make the floorboard more spacious and the seat more comfortable for both rider and pillion. The handlebar placement has also been tweaked to work in unison with the other changes. It appears that the windscreen sits in a higher, more functional place as well. While the handsome design is largely the same, some body panels have been tweaked to make this change.
Ultraviolette says the bike is currently in the testing and validation phase and that deliveries should begin by Q1 2027, perhaps by January itself. Prices for all bookings that have already been made will remain unchanged, and the scooter will offer the same 3.5kWh, 5kWh and 6kWh battery pack sizes. Dual-channel ABS and traction control will be standard, and some variants will also get the convenient on-board charger that debuted in the X-47.
Ultraviolette’s commitment to offering its customers the best possible experience is commendable, but it comes at the expense of further upsetting the (over 70,000) people who currently hold bookings. However, those who do find the additional patience are likely to be rewarded with an even better product than was first promised.
As for the Shockwave motorcycle, it is also delayed, but the company says it will share more details on that product in the coming weeks.
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