The Story of Kunwer Sachdev
A statistics graduate with no MBA and no money who sold pens, built India's largest inverter and solar company, organised an entire unorganised industry, filed a record number of patents — lost it all, and started again in the age of AI.
The complete story — twelve illustrated chapters, in his own words, with every photograph and source — lives on SolarManOfIndia.com. Each chapter below opens the full story there.
1 Before the inverters, there was cable Pens, cable TV, and the technician who insulted me into a new life 2 The first inverter, and the fire Two years of exploding MOSFETs, and the first 500 units sold by hand 3 The Inventions The CHIC, the Fairy Queen, and the firsts a whole industry copied 4 Patents & IP 102 filings — India's highest patent filer, and a seat at WIPO 5 Going solar A dedicated team, and India's first 1 MW grid-feed plant 6 Factories & offices Six plants, Reliance-Temasek's investment, and a costly battery lesson 7 The brand nobody could copy Buses, demo vans, the Mercedes campaign, hoardings and firsts 8 Going to market Sales ka Baazigar, the TV films, YouTube a decade early, and Kotler 9 Distribution 900 distributors, 50,000 dealers, and the service-army lesson 10 Exports The first CE mark, 90 countries, and Power on Wheels 11 The peak, and the fall Rs 1,200 crore, 5,000 people — and the day Su-Kam died 12 The rebuild, and AI Starting again with Khushboo, Su-Vastika, and kunwwer.ai
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All twelve chapters — the factories, products, patents and milestones — on SolarManOfIndia.com.