Vector Technics manufactures ~5,000 drone BLDC motors a month. They're the largest in India. They hope to scale to 15,000 motors/month soon.
Meanwhile, China manufactures millions.
Guess what? Most Indian companies still import these motors from China. Why? Low trust in Indian products.
This imported > indigenous mindset is antithetical to technological development, economic growth, and India's future prosperity, yet it's pervasive across industries.
The belief that "if it's Indian, it must not be good" still lingers in many corners of the subcontinent, despite numerous hardware and manufacturing companies proving that this thinking is misguided and incorrect.
I'm thrilled to see companies like Vector Technics putting in years of hard work and risking it all to reverse this mindset and prove to India (and the world) that Indian hardware is synonymous with quality and reliability.
India needs hundreds more companies like Vector, building machines, materials, and components indigenously.
But it also needs buyers to break out of this imported-first, local-second mindset.
Build from India for the world, but also...
Buy from India, lead the world.
Most of India's drone motors come from China.
In 2019, the founders of Vector Technics,
@prudhvirajp Karna Raj, set out to change that in a 400 sq. ft. Hyderabad office.
Today,
@vectortechnics is India's largest indigenous drone motor manufacturer, producing 5k motors/month.