Here’s what Mahindra has been cooking behind our backs, all the way in California’s Silicon Valley. This is their GenZe 2.0 electric scooter, strictly meant for the US market for now, where it has already secured 300 orders. The $2,999 (INR 2 lakh – approx.) runabout goes on sale this fall in California, Oregon and Michigan. Sales could soon expand to other states and eventually Europe.
Targeted at city and campus dwellers, the GenZe 2.0 features a 28-pound removable battery, which riders can unhook and carry inside their homes to charge, or wherever they’re headed, as long as the place has a power socket. The battery takes 3.5 hours to fully charge, giving the scooter a range of 30 miles on a single charge. A 7-inch touch-screen display announces range and speed, which will never exceed 30 miles per hour, so riders won’t need a motorcycle license. It even offers 3 driving modes, including a setting for those first learning to ride.
The GenZe 2.0 was designed in Silicon Valley with features like a secure laptop charging port under the seat and disc brakes all around. The city slicker will be retailed through recently opened, four stores in San Francisco and Portland, where electrically propelled two-wheeler are sought after more than anywhere in the US. Mahindra hopes that the GenZe will act as a springboard for the Mumbai based conglomerate to start retailing cars in the US.
via The Hindu
So this is why they delayed the Mojo and gave not-so-great models.