S2, EP1: From Petrolhead to EV Founder — Mishu Ahluwalia on TREVEL, AI & The Open Road

What happens when a die-hard petrolhead bets his career on electric vehicles? Mishu Ahluwalia — founder & CEO of TREVEL.IN, India's most premium EV ride-hailing service — isn't your typical startup founder. He's a biker. He rides. He lives for the open road. And yet, he's building a business that's quietly disrupting how India moves — one electric cab at a time. In this episode of BBM Talkies, Sashank Vemparala sits down with Mishu for a raw, unfiltered conversation covering the gap in India's cab market that nobody was solving, how AI replaced a 30-person engineering team, what it really means to be a founder on the ground at 10:30pm pushing cabs outside a nightclub, the tension between loving petrol and betting on electrons, and what a ride through Zanskar on a Himalayan teaches you about life. This one's for the riders, the builders, and anyone who's ever wondered if the future of mobility has a soul. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 – Upcoming 01:00 – Introduction 04:20 – The Trevel Story 10:32 – The Financial Model 15:20 – The EV Resolution 17:50 – Chief Execution Officer 21:55 – Entrepreneurship, Success, Failures. 26:38 – The Power of AI 34:05 – Every Problem Deserves a Solution! 40:10 – Rapid Fire 50:05 – The Trevel Experience ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 FIND MISHU & TREVEL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TREVEL: https://trevel.in Mishu on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mishuahlu... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏍️ ABOUT BBM — BIKES, BUDDIES & MORE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BBM is India's community for serious superbike enthusiasts. Real riders. Real stories. No filters. Website: www.bikesbuddiesandmore.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bikesbuddie... Sashank on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sashank-v... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #BBMTalkies #Podcast #Trevel #EVIndia #StartupIndia #EVStartup #Superbikes #SuperbikeCommunity #MishuAhluwalia #Entrepreneurship #Leadership #AI #IndianPodcast #RideHailing #Petrolhead #OpenRoad #BBMTALKIES #podcast #entrepreneurship #superbikes #fun #share #learning #leadership #rapidfire #claude