Ultraviolette X47 Skyforce Delivered To Kolkata Police: 183 Electric Patrol Bikes On Duty

The Ultraviolette X47 Skyforce is now on Kolkata's streets, with 183 electric patrol motorcycles handed over to Kolkata Police at Lalbazar headquarters on 18 September 2026. It ranks among the largest electric bike deployments by any police force in India. You cannot buy a Skyforce, but the bike underneath it, the X-47 Crossover, retails from ₹2.49 lakh (ex-showroom). So this is production hardware doing a real shift, not a concept parked outside a station for photographs.

What Kolkata Police got with the Ultraviolette X47 Skyforce

The Skyforce is a patrol variant of the X-47 Crossover, and the changes are mostly electrical. Ultraviolette reworked the electronics architecture so the bike can run police gear directly: a siren and hooter, a public address system, LED blinkers, and holders for a microphone and a walkie-talkie. Side panniers carry the rest. The company says every unit was tested before handover and that these bikes are meant for daily patrol, not ceremonial parades. It also claims to be the first electric two-wheeler maker, by scale, inducted into the Kolkata Police fleet.

Gaps remain. Ultraviolette has not disclosed the battery capacity, the charging time or what the force paid for the fleet. The 211 km range figure points to the 7.1 kWh pack from the regular X-47 Original, though that is a reading of the numbers, not a confirmed spec.

Power, torque and range: the hardware underneath

The Ultraviolette X47 Skyforce inherits 27 kW (36 bhp) and 550 Nm of torque at the wheel, roughly 90 Nm at the motor. Claimed top speed is 145 km/h, and certified IDC range is 211 km. Suspension is a 41 mm USD fork at the front and a monoshock at the rear, each with 170 mm of travel. Bybre brakes do the stopping, with a 320 mm disc up front and a 230 mm disc behind.

For police work, that travel figure matters more than top speed. Kolkata means broken patches, tram tracks and monsoon waterlogging, and 170 mm lets an officer take a bad kerb without flinching. Instant torque helps too. A patrol bike spends its day stopping, starting and threading through jams around Esplanade and Park Street, which is exactly where a single-cylinder petrol engine wastes effort.

Electric vs petrol patrol bikes: the running-cost maths

Assume a patrol bike covers 80 km a day, or 2,400 km a month. A petrol bike returning 32 kmpl in stop-start traffic burns about 75 litres, which at ₹103 a litre comes to roughly ₹7,700. The Skyforce, on a 7.1 kWh pack at about ₹8 a unit, uses around ₹57 of electricity per full charge. Even if real-world range drops to 150 km, that works out near ₹0.38 a km, or ₹910 a month.

The gap is about ₹6,800 per bike per month. Across 183 bikes, that is roughly ₹12.5 lakh every month, or ₹1.5 crore a year, before counting fewer service visits. These are estimates, and Kolkata Police's actual tariffs and duty cycles will move them. Charging logistics will decide whether the saving turns real, because 183 bikes need a serious number of plug points at police lines.

How much does the X-47 Crossover cost in India?

Retail pricing runs in tiers. The Base variant costs ₹2.49 lakh and skips the ADAS suite. The Original, which shares the Skyforce's 7.1 kWh pack, comes in around ₹2.64 lakh. The 10.3 kWh Recon, rated at 323 km IDC, starts near ₹3.59 lakh. Ultraviolette also sells the bike from ₹1.49 lakh under a battery subscription, where you pay monthly for the pack instead of buying it.

Take the Original in Delhi. Expect an on-road price of about ₹2.8 lakh once insurance and registration are added, though treat that as a likely figure, not a quote. A 20% down payment is ₹56,000, and a five-year loan at 11% on the rest means an EMI of roughly ₹4,870.

X-47 vs TVS Apache RTX 300: where the money goes

The nearest petrol rival is the TVS Apache RTX 300, with a 299 cc engine making 35.5 bhp and 28.5 Nm, priced from ₹1.99 lakh. Headline power is almost identical to the Original's 36 bhp. Torque is not: 28.5 Nm against 90 Nm at the motor. The KTM 250 Adventure sits in the same bracket for riders who want petrol and a bigger badge, while Ultraviolette's own F77 Mach 2 is the faster, sportier route.

The upfront gap is the catch. The RTX 300 Top costs ₹2.14 lakh, so the Original sits about ₹50,000 above it. A private rider doing 1,000 km a month would spend roughly ₹3,200 on petrol at 32 kmpl, against about ₹380 on electricity. That saving of around ₹2,800 a month closes the ₹50,000 gap in roughly 18 months. Highway tourers with few chargers between towns still get a better deal from the RTX 300.

Verdict: what the Skyforce tells buyers

Kolkata Police has put 183 bikes behind the idea of electric patrolling, and the Ultraviolette X47 Skyforce hands the X-47 platform its most demanding public test yet. Buy the Original if you can charge at home and ride more than 1,000 km a month. Pick the RTX 300 if your riding is highway-heavy. If long-term reliability under hard use worries you, wait a few months, because fleet feedback from Kolkata will be the best real-world data any buyer gets. If the Skyforce has you curious about the civilian version, check the on-road price and EMI for the Ultraviolette X-47 Crossover in your city on Drivio.