By Raphae and Farah Halim
The PluginIndia team got the Batt:RE LO:EV electric scooter from the Batt:RE team in Mumbai for 5-6 days. The Batt:RE team has surpassed our expectations in terms of choices for the customer.
From wide variety of colors to battery packs to connectivity options. Even many established brands don't offer such choices. In this article, we showcase our findings after testing the wonderful
​Batt:RE ​LO:EV electric scooter for around 4-5 days.

By Atul Gopal & Kamlesh Mallick

The PluginIndia team got the ETrance electric moped from the PURE EV dealer here in Pune for 5-6 days. What blew our minds was the incredible efficiency of 13.714 Wh/km, we could manage to achieve with the eTrance. This surely has to be one of most energy efficient two wheelers in the market. In this article, we showcase our findings after testing the wonderful ETrance for a week.

By Team PluginIndia
In this month's EV industry analysis, Raphae and Amit speak about how businesses are getting rid of petrol vehicles and adding more EV’s in their fleets. This clearly shows the value proposition that EVs offer to businesses. Electric Vehicles are way superior to Petrol vehicles in terms of economy, efficiency, reliability and performance and businesses love that!

Guest Post by EV Community Member,
Tata Nexon Electric Car Owner,
Vivek Ahuja, New Delhi

     Yes I know it's not an electric blue color, but this is my electric car and “teal Blue” color so that’s the name I’ll go with !
​Finally after waiting for over 6 months I got my car in the beginning of this month and have done just over a 1000 kms, so writing my first feedback and experience of the car.

By Team PluginIndia

There is a strong anti China movement in India and around the world as we speak. Unfortunately many industries in India are dependent on China including our Electric Vehicle Industry. 
In this episode of EV guru we show were Indian EV Industry is in terms of localisation and we showcase how many industries are dependent on China.
Ultimately we speak about taking the pragmatic approach for our Indian EV Industry. 

By Atul Gopal

We got the Hero Electric Dash electric scooter from the Hero Electric dealer in Pune. We used the scooter for 3-4 days in the city and tested it city conditions.
In this blog and video, we share our observations of this electric scooter launched by Hero Electric.

By Kamlesh Mallick & Abhishek Uchil

By Atul Gopal

You guys must have read bout our previous writeup where Kamlesh and I visited a very interesting EV workshop in the Cinchwad area of Pune - Northway Motorsport who specialises in converting ICE Vehicles to Electric vehicles and also have battery upgrades for Mahindra e2o Electric Car.
In this blog, i share my thoughts on the test drive in hilly terrain on an upgraded 5+ year old e2o. We also visit and showed the upgrade to ex Mahindra Reva Battery Head, Mr Abhay Patwardhan, who's company now is making LFP batteries for electric scooters and also document his recommendations.

By Team PluginIndia
We often get so many queries, from all of you about buying an electric scooter. Especially budget conscious consumers among you. Many of you don't want to spend more than Rs 65,000 for a scooter which is used for simple day to day errands. Many of you want an electric scooter that is affordable and reliable. You have many questions like - which scooter offers the longest range, which scooter offers good quality batteries and so on. In this blog/video we will talk about the budget electric scooters you can buy now in mid 2020.

By Team PluginIndia

In this month's EV industry analysis, Raphae and Amit speak about the lack of original designs in Indian Electric Scooter industry. This has resulted in Honda suing Hero Electric for copying the Honda Moove scooter's design. We also speak about Ola Electric's foray into electric scooters and two wheelers and why they purchased the Dutch scooter startup - Etergo.

By Atul Gopal

This week Kamlesh and I visited a very interesting EV workshop in the Cinchwad area of Pune. Northway Motorsport specialises in converting ICE Vehicles to Electric vehicles. 
Mr Hemank Dabhade is the founder of Northway Motorsport, has created a sensation on the internet with his videos of his converted electric cars.
In this blog, i will give my thoughts on the work being done by Hemank and also share many insights we learnt during this fascinating meeting. 

By Team PluginIndia

The Batt:RE team sent us their connected electric scooter called Batt:RE One IOT to our workshop in Santacruz, Mumbai. We spent few days understanding, clearing doubts, riding it and testing connectivity features. We feel this young startup has done a lot of work over the last year or so to improve their models and we can see the results. Read on to find more.