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

By Kamlesh Mallick, Raphae Halim and Farah Halim

Electric Scooters are the easiest route to get into the world of electric mobility. We often get many queries, from all of you - our readers and followers, about buying an electric scooter.  
Which scooter offers the longest range, which has good top speed, which one is least expensive, which brand is more tech savvy and so on.
In this article and video embedded, we will talk about the High Speed Electric Scooters you can buy now!  

By Kamlesh Mallick

This is the ePluto 7G. This is a brand new electric scooter launched by the Hyderabad based startup - PureEV. The pricing and availability will be updated by the end of December 2019.
We went on a 50 km ride and here are some 10 observations!

By Kamlesh Mallick

So we got an email from the PureEV team last month, inviting PluginIndia to visit their factory and meet their battery engineering team in Hyderabad. We have heard a lot about the company and by looking at their website, we see some some cool looking electric two wheeler products. The fact that they make their own battery packs and also are working on algorithms, software to improve their battery, meant that this trip to Hyderabad was a no brainer.

So Hero Electric, the largest company in terms of electric scooter sales, have recently updated their scooter lineup to comply with FAME 2 requirements.
We visited the dealership in Cinchwad, Pune and took the scooter on a spin. In this blog, we highlight our observations in real time as we rode the Hero Electric Photon. ​

By Team PluginIndia
​The Okinawa Ridge+ electric scooter by Gurgaon based Okinawa Scooters, was the company's first product with Lithium-Ion batteries.
We recently had an opportunity to test drive the Ridge+ and give our opinions in our Lets Ride video.  Here are more observations and comments.

By Raphae Halim

We got an opportunity to ride the ​Ampere Zeal Electric Scooter, which is the latest scooter launched by 10+ year old EV company Ampere Vehicles.
The dealer in Cinchwad, Pune invited us to take a look at it.  In this blog, we highlight our observations in real time as we rode the Zeal.