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.

By Team PluginIndia

The PureEV ePluto7G has gone through some incredible updates which has made riding it a much more pleasurable experience. Not only have they updated the look and feel and improved the fit and finish, they have also worked on the controller, battery pack and boot space.
We have been testing the upgraded ePluto7G for few weeks and found major improvements compared to the pre-production model.
​In this article/video, we will share the 7 awesome updates to the PureEV ePluto 7G.

By Team PluginIndia

Many of you know, Hero Electric is the largest player in the Indian electric scooter segment. Atul from PluginIndia recently spoke to Mr Sohinder Gill, CEO of Hero Electric about the strategy adopted by Hero Electric, battery pack usage etc. Also at the end of the article, the EV community have asked ask some of their questions too.

By Team PluginIndia

PureEV is a Hyderabad based startup who have been researching and manufacturing high performance Lithium batteries and Electric Vehicles since 2018.
In this EV Industry QnA, Raphae Halim from PluginIndia speaks to Mr Rohit Vadera is one of the co-founders of the company which was incubated out of IIT Hyderabad. 
We discuss about Pure EV's ePluto7G electric scooter, Lithium Batteries, Energy Storage solutions and more.

By Kamlesh Mallick

So the worldwide pandemic has crippled regular life and all of us are sitting at home. The PluginIndia team too is in lockdown! 
Bajaj are totally affected as local production is halted, along with supply from their vendors. We have got news that the Chetak electric scooter won’t be delivered anytime soon.
​And this news has really disappointed many of you.

By Kamlesh Mallick

Many people have asked us about the long term costs with the Ather 450X and Chetak electric scooters compared to petrol scooters. Here is the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for a period of 6 years. 
This includes costs for everything - from fuel to part replacements to battery replacement to connectivity!
Hopefully this acts as a reference for many people not persuading you to go electric!

By Team PluginIndia

By: Raphae Halim

By Kamlesh Mallick

Ather Energy has been doing a lot of outreach sessions with open houses in multiple cities, following the unveiling of the Ather 450X electric scooter. They have got a lot of negative publicity over the last couple of weeks due to their price hikes, monthly subscription fees for connectivity and unpopular power packs.
​We have documented all, in our popular podcast and we have also asked the question in our poll of the month for Feb 2020 (seen in our Homepage) and the response has been very critical of Ather.  
Despite having a slight leg sprain, i could not miss the opportunity to meet the Ather team and get their perspective of things and also take a look at the 450X.
​So this is what we learnt.

By Kamlesh Mallick & Raphae Halim 

So the entire PluginIndia team and the EV community watched the new Hamara Kal video few months back. What nostalgic and emotional feeling for all of us! I kid you not, that evening, our EV community group was discussing the video and re-watching it non stop! ​And then when we saw and rode the 2020 Chetak electric scooter for the first time, there was another wave of positive feelings that engulfed all of us - both the old and the new generation! It's hard to describe. Such things need to be felt! 
​In this article we will document our initial impressions on the Chetak electric scooter, the experience centre and the people we met.

By Kamlesh Mallick

By Kamlesh Mallick