Kolkata to Chennai in 3 hours, rent bus 600! A unique car is being made with IIT

Last update:25 February, 2025, 23:47 IST

With the help of IIT Madras, waterfly technologies are preparing to make a unique sea car. This will complete the journey from Kolkata to Chennai in just 3 hours and its fare has also been claimed to be just Rs 600. Enjoy …Read more

The journey from Kolkata to Chennai in only three hours and that too only 600 rupees is on rent… it sounds like a fiction, but this dream can become a reality soon. The startup waterfly technologies supported by IIT Madras’s Incubation Cell have made this shocking claim. Famous businessman Anand Mahindra was also very impressed with this claim. Anand Mahindra even said that IIT is seen competing with Silicon Valley in terms of promoting Madras Startup…!

Anand Mahindra posted on social media X, ‘About every week the news of a new’ Techventure ‘comes. What I liked in this is not just the promise of exploiting our huge waterways, but also the fact that the design of this vehicle is very good! ‘

In fact, earlier in Aero India 2025, the company’s co-founder Harsh Rajesh said that he is going to make this journey cheaper and fast by using electric segliders. These will be wing-in-ground (WIG) crafts, which will fly with water and fly at a height of four meters. According to the report published in the English newspaper New India Express, he said, “The 1600 km journey from Kolkata to Chennai can be completed in just Rs 600 per seat, which will be cheaper than an AC three-tier train ticket.”

How will this miracle be possible?
Keshav Chaudhary, who is another co-founder of this startup, explained the scientific reason behind this unique concept. According to him, this special aircraft will fly very close to the water surface and take advantage of the ground effect. This will reduce the friction on the wings of the aircraft and increase the lift due to air cushion, which will make it fly even at low speed.

For example, a general airbus A320 or Boeing 737 spends 2.5 to 3 tonnes of aviation turbine fuel (ATF) to fly from Kolkata, with the current price of about Rs 95,000 per kilo. But the seglider of waterfly can reduce this cost to a great extent, which will also make the ticket very cheap.

Construction is also cheap, maintenance also easy
Keshav Chaudhary also stated that the cost of his design would be much lower than a normal airplane. He told, ‘Because we do not fly to high altitude, we do not need to bear less air pressure, so that our aircraft does not have to make it as strong. This reduces the cost of construction significantly.

Apart from this, the engine of this aircraft will not need to make it more powerful like traditional airplanes. “The airplane has to fly before the runway is over, but we have the entire sea. The runway is infinite for us. This will not put pressure on the engine. “

How long can this superfast transport come?
Currently, this project is in the initial stage. The company has introduced only its design in Aero India. The first prototype of 100 kg will be prepared in the next few months and can fly a tonne prototype by the end of 2025. The company aims to create a 20-seater model by 2026, which will be able to travel from Chennai to Kolkata.

IIT Madras has given financial assistance to this project and now the company is also trying to raise funding from the defense sector. Apart from this, in future it can also be used for cargo shipping and monitoring campaigns.