Modi's EV Push
As PM Modi’s clean mobility mission reshapes India’s transport sector and Maharashtra pumps ₹1,993 crore into EVs, the question isn’t whether electric cabs will dominate the Pune–Mumbai corridor. It’s who will be at the wheel when they do. Two Pune women already have their answer.
PUNE, June 2026 : When most people picture the cab industry, they picture men. Men driving. Men owning fleets. Men negotiating permits and fuel costs and expressway tolls.
Rutuja Wanjari and Mayuri Karwa had a different picture in mind.
As co-founder of GreenEVCabs (greenevcabs.com) and co-founder of OrbitMiles (orbitmiles.in) respectively both 100% electric cab services operating on the Pune–Mumbai corridor these two Pune-based women entrepreneurs are part of a small but growing cohort who are not just participating in India’s EV transition, but actively shaping it.
And they chose one of the hardest places to do it: intercity commercial transport on India’s most trafficked expressway.
The Road Less Taken
The Pune–Mumbai Expressway sees tens of thousands of cab journeys every single day. It is a corridor dominated by aggregator apps, diesel vehicles, and surge pricing that punishes travellers at the worst possible moments late nights, monsoon mornings, festival eves.
GreenEVCabs and OrbitMiles launched with a fundamentally different proposition. Fixed fares from ₹2,700, all tolls included, zero surge pricing ever. Between them, a 100% electric fleet spanning the Citroën eC3, MG ZS EV, MG Windsor EV, Kia Carens Clavis, and the BYD eMax 7, a seven-seater electric SUV built for families. Bookings entirely on WhatsApp no app, no hidden charges, no surprises at drop-off.
Over 2,000 trips later, the model is working.
What makes these two businesses notable isn’t just what they do it’s who is building them. In a transport sector where women founders are rare and women in EV entrepreneurship rarer still, Rutuja Wanjari and Mayuri Karwa represent something the industry hasn’t seen enough of: women at the wheel of clean mobility not as passengers, but as architects.
Two Brands. One Movement.
GreenEVCabs was co-founded by Rutuja Wanjari. OrbitMiles, operating on the same corridor, counts Mayuri Sandesh Karwa among its co-founders.
The two platforms serve overlapping but distinct traveller profiles — GreenEVCabs with its XL 7-seater focus and airport transfer specialisation, OrbitMiles with its premium ride experience and fare calculator-first booking approach. Together, they represent something rare on Indian roads: a women co-founded duopoly in clean intercity transport, built from Pune, operating on Maharashtra’s most important expressway.
Neither brand asks passengers to compromise. Professional drivers. Live flight tracking for airport pickups. Thirty minutes of free waiting at arrivals. Luggage assistance. Name-board meet-and-greet. All tolls absorbed. Nothing added at drop-off.
The obsessive focus on passenger experience especially for women travelling alone, families with children, and professionals on tight schedules is not incidental. It reflects who is in the room when these businesses are built.
Women and the EV Opportunity
India’s electric vehicle sector is at an inflection point. Maharashtra approved a ₹1,993 crore EV policy in May 2025 more than double its previous EV budget targeting a 30% EV sales share by 2030, with up to ₹2 lakh in purchase subsidies for electric four-wheelers used in commercial transport and full toll exemption for EVs on the Mumbai–Pune Expressway.
The policy also sets a 50% EV mandate for cab aggregators by 2030 and designates the Mumbai–Pune Expressway as a sustainable mobility corridor with dense charging infrastructure.
This wave of policy support is creating a rare window one where new entrants, including women entrepreneurs, can build viable, scalable businesses in a sector being actively restructured by government intent.
At the national level, PM Modi’s vision of a cleaner, greener, and more self-reliant India is being operationalised through schemes like the SPMEPCI, which promotes domestic manufacturing and adoption of electric passenger cars. The PM E-DRIVE scheme, running through 2026, provides direct demand incentives for electric vehicles in the commercial and fleet segment.
The deadline is real. The mandates are tightening. The subsidies are live.
Rutuja Wanjari and Mayuri Karwa didn’t wait for any of it.
Building It Differently
What does women’s co-leadership bring to a cab business that the industry hasn’t traditionally had?
For starters, a sharper instinct for what passengers actually experience. The small things that GreenEVCabs and OrbitMiles get right the free waiting time, the luggage help, the flight tracking, the nothing-added-at-drop-off guarantee reflect a service philosophy that goes beyond logistics. It is a business built around trust.
In a sector where passengers have long been let down by opaque pricing and unreliable drivers, that trust is the product.
“Clean transport shouldn’t be a premium only some can afford. We built this from Pune because this corridor needed it and because the passenger deserved better than surge pricing and hidden tolls.”
GreenEVCabs & OrbitMiles
The Bigger Picture
India’s clean mobility transition will not happen through policy alone. It will happen because entrepreneurs — including women entrepreneurs build the businesses that make electric travel normal, affordable, and reliable for everyday Indians.
On the Pune–Mumbai corridor, that normalisation is already underway. Over 2,000 trips. Zero tailpipe emissions. A 4.8-star rating. And two women co-founders who decided that clean transport was worth building from the ground up before the subsidies, before the mandates, before the mainstream caught on.
Rutuja Wanjari of GreenEVCabs and Mayuri Karwa of OrbitMiles are co-authoring that track record. And in doing so, quietly expanding what women in Indian entrepreneurship can look like.
Not in a co-working space. Not in fintech or edtech. On the expressway. In an EV. Moving India forward.
CONTACT & BOOKINGS –
GreenEVCabs | greenevcabs.com | WhatsApp / Call: +91 74982 64215
OrbitMiles | orbitmiles.in | WhatsApp: +91 84848 76369
Both services operate 24/7 on the Pune–Mumbai corridor. Fixed fares from ₹2,700, all tolls included. No advance payment. Free cancellation 2 hours before travel. Book on WhatsApp — no app needed.
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