[TusharK]

After launching its electric scooters in Bangalore, Ather Energy will offer its products in Chennai from June 2019. Customers can now place pre-orders on the company's website.



Ather Energy will be introducing both the 450 and the 340 e-scooters in Chennai. The company will be setting up Ather Grid - public charging infrastructure at places like cafes, malls, tech-parks, gyms in the city. For the first 6 months, all EV users will be able to use Ather Points to charge their vehicles for free.

According to the company, the Ather 450 e-scooter is sold out in Bangalore till September 2019. There are 31 charging points at 24 locations in the city.



The Ather 340 and the Ather 450 are powered by a Brushless DC electric motor (BLDC). The Ather 340 has an output of 6 BHP and 20 Nm and comes with a 1.92 kWh lithium-ion battery, while the 450 variant makes 7.2 BHP and 20.5 Nm of torque. It gets a 2.4 kWh lithium-ion battery. The claimed maximum range of the two scooters is 86 km and 107 km respectively.

Link to Team-BHP News

[hemanth.anand]

Teasers have begun on Social media

http://youtu.be/gmCwmSlEE9g

YouTube


Twitter, Facebbok and Instagram

Looking at these, I guess the event will be held at Marina beach

Lot of Ather's development has been done in Chennai IIT. So it was clear that it would be launched in Chennai soon. I'm interested to see the response in Chennai. Especially with the lack of clarity on FAME II although I'm sure it'll be sorted out by June.

[jpcoolguy]

Great news !!! Hope they will also cover the new sub urban areas like OMR (the IT belt), Tambaram, etc as well where there will be more potential for these electric bikes. Wishing them all the best.

[TusharK]

Ather Energy installing fast charging network in Chennai

Ather Energy is setting up its fast charging network called Ather Grid in Chennai. The company plans to install 50-55 Ather Grid points across the city by the end of this year.



Ather Grid can be used by all electric 2-wheelers and 4-wheelers. The charging facility will be offered for free till the end of this year.

Ather Energy has partnered with cafes, restaurants, tech parks, malls and gyms to install charging points. The company has already installed seven fast charging points in Chennai. These are located at Forum Vijaya mall, AtWorks and Bikes and Burgers among other restaurants.

Electric vehicle owners will be able to locate and check availability of the nearest charging stations in real-time using the Ather Grid app.

Chennai is the second city after Bangalore to get the Ather Grid fast charging network. The company plans to set up 6,500 charging points across the country by 2022.

Link to Team-BHP News

[aargee]

Originally Posted by TusharK

[b]Ather Grid can be used by all electric 2-wheelers and 4-wheelers

Someone needs to ask Ather, how this is possible because of their custom charging pin (Ather's charging connectors are incompatible with other EVs) that is incompatible with other vehicles.

[CrAzY dRiVeR]

Originally Posted by aargee

Someone needs to ask Ather, how this is possible because of their custom charging pin (Ather's charging connectors are incompatible with other EVs) that is incompatible with other vehicles.

Using this generic point -



Although they can as well connect to any other normal plug point instead.

[hemanth.anand]

Now we're able to see the charging points on the Athergrid App.

Originally Posted by aargee

Someone needs to ask Ather, how this is possible because of their custom charging pin (Ather's charging connectors are incompatible with other EVs) that is incompatible with other vehicles.

Originally Posted by CrAzY dRiVeR

Using this generic point -

Like CrAzY dRiVeR has written, charging of all non-Ather EVs can be done using the standard 5A/15A socket. One thing to note however is that this socket is present only on Public charging points and not prsent in the home charging points.
Read this below post of mine where I'd put my E2O+ for charging at the Ather experience centre...
https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/motor...ml#post4563676 (An 'e-motion'al connect - My Ather 450)

[aargee]

Going by this post in FB, looks like the launch in Chennai is slated on 8-July

[Mortis]

I think Ather needs to speed up their launches in other cities otherwise by the time it's available in the major cities, it will already be an almost "obsolete" product since it has one foot in the digital/electronic realm which changes at a faster rate.

[srishiva]

Ultraviolette also has a scooter coming up ! Will be interesting to see how they stack up against each other. They have TVS backing them up and might also help in manufacturing. But Ather has a leg up being early to market and they need to ramp up production.

[hemanth.anand]

Ather has organised an event this weekend for people in Chennai who had expressed pre-order interest.

A video shared on their forum is below

http://youtu.be/5DQLOpNovqg

Attendees at the event can not only test ride and pre-order the scooter before everybody else in Chennai, but also get an opportunity to meet with Ather owners from Bangalore. For this event, Ather is taking along some Ather Owners from Bangalore along with their scooters and also organising a group ride in Chennai. I'm also part of the group and will be in the event with my scooter! They've taken care of travel, accommodation and vehicle logistics for us. They have informed that the group ride would cover some important landmarks of Chennai. Looking forward to the ride.

[aargee]

Originally Posted by hemanth.anand

I'm also part of the group and will be in the event with my scooter! They've taken care of travel, accommodation and vehicle logistics for us

Welcome to Chennai & stay at A.Pallava
Interested to know how they're managing the charging for the 350+350 Km & some interesting statistics as the power range

[hemanth.anand]

Originally Posted by aargee

Welcome to Chennai & stay at A.Pallava
Interested to know how they're managing the charging for the 350+350 Km & some interesting statistics as the power range

Thanks. We are not riding from Bangalore to Chennai (except one adventurous guy) . The vehicles will be transported by Ather through a logistics company.

[fordday]

Originally Posted by hemanth.anand

Thanks. We are not riding from Bangalore to Chennai (except one adventurous guy) . The vehicles will be transported by Ather through a logistics company.

Hats off to that adventurous guy.
Any idea how he is going to manage?

[aargee]

Originally Posted by hemanth.anand

Thanks. We are not riding from Bangalore to Chennai (except one adventurous guy)

Is he the one who rode to Tirupathi from Bangalore by any chance?