Reva’s Chetan Maini in BusinessWeek list of India’s 50 Most Powerful People 2009

Reva Electric Car Company’s Deputy Chairman and CTO of Chetan Maini is among Businessweek’s list of India’s 50 Most Powerful People 2009.This is the first time Chetan Maini has found a place in BusinessWeek’s list of the Top 50 Most Powerful People in India.

Chetan has been contributing to the fight against climate change by making Reva the largest fleet of electric cars in the world.

Reva Electric Car Company, a joint venture between Maini Group of India and AEV LLC of California and venture-backed by US investors Global Environment Fund and Draper Fisher Jurveston, has already been acclaimed by Business World, in 2006, as one of India’s ‘Cool Companies’ and technology innovator.

It is the first company worldwide to successfully commercialize electric cars.

Reva has been selling in around 21 countries across Europe and Asia, Latin and Central America and has the largest deployed fleet of electric cars on the market with over 3000 EVs on the road.

BusinessWeek’s India’s 50 Most Powerful People 2009 list includes politicians, professors, businessmen and cricketers.

With the list, BusinessWeek aims to pinpoint the shifts in power that defined India in 2008, and to predict the players to watch for in 2010.

Chetan Maini has joined the league of top 50 Indians which also consists of dignitaries like Sonia Gandhi, Congress party leader; Lakshmi Mittal, Chairman and CEO, ArcelorMittal; Mukesh Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Industries; Ratan Tata, Chairman, TATA Group; Sunil Mittal, Chairman and Managing Director, Bharti Airtel; Vijay Mallya, owner of Kingfisher Airlines and United Breweries Group, to name a few.

BusinessWeek India’s 50 Most Powerful People 2009 were chosen by the magazine’s reporters and editors.

The magazine ran its first list of India’s 50 Most Powerful People in 2007.