Ather Energy

When you think about a premium electric scooter brand, Ather is undoubtedly one of the first names to come up in your mind. Catering only to the city of Bengaluru, for now, Ather has successfully completed its first year in this niche market. Since the launch, the start-up has achieved quite a few milestones, making it rather hard to believe that this technology-driven start-up, owned by students from IIT Madras is just a year old. [caption id="attachment_345790" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Does Read More...

India’s first intelligent electric scooter manufacturer, Ather Energy has managed to raise an investment of about 51 million dollars in its latest round of funding. The funding was led by Sachin Bansal’s initial investment of 32 million dollars. One of the earliest start-up investments by Sachin Bansal was when he invested half a million dollars in Ather Energy as an Angel investor, back in 2014. Hero MotoCorp has also managed to convert its Convertible Debt of over 19 million dollars Read More...

Ather, leading Indian electric scooter manufacturer, has announced that their flagship scooter, the 450, is now fame 2 compliant. This would translate to a monetary benefit to the end customer, on the on-road price of the vehicle. Earlier, under the Fame 1 scheme, the scooter got a benefit of INR 22,000, however, under the updated Fame 2 policy, the motorcycle gets a subsidiary of INR 27,000. This difference of INR 5,000 aims to encourage more and more people to adopt Read More...

With a successful run in the city of Bengaluru, Indian company Ather Energy is about to roll out its scooters in the city of Chennai. This kickstarts the brand's rapid expansion phase, with plans to enter 30 Indian cities over the next couple of years. Just like the company did in Bengaluru, the city of Chennai too, will get its public charging infrastructure spread throughout the city. Promoting the use of electric vehicles, the company announced that these stations would Read More...

India’s first locally designed and manufactured intelligent scooter brand, Ather Energy, has announced new additional subscription plans for the Ather 450 & 340 scooters. Building on the success of Ather One, a more comprehensive plane, the new plans will offer more flexibility to the customer to choose services of their choice based on their usage. However, Public charging at AtherGrid will remain free till 31st of December 2019 for all Ather customers. The Ather One Plan will continue to be available and customers will be able Read More...

Designed for city riding, the Ather 450 electric scooter is manufactured by a start up founded by IIT Madras graduates. Ather Energy has started delivering the Ather 450 scooter. The scooter features a 7” touchscreen dashboard offering navigation. The bike has a range of 75 kilometres. The screen can be connected with a phone via an Ather app which enables a bunch of funtions including over the air updates. Tarun Mehta, Co-founder & CEO quoted, “The past few weeks have been Read More...

Last time I thought something will make me switch teams from Internal Combustion and get on-board with a battery-powered two-wheeler was back in 2012 when I saw Mission Motorcycles’ Mission RS. It was one of the most admirable electric motorcycles of all time and, surprisingly, was not designed by the wine sipping, pasta eating artists who have given the world some of the finest vehicles, ever. Mission Motorcycles declared bankruptcy and the world was denied what could’ve been a revolutionary Read More...

Ather Energy recently introduced its first electric smart scooters, Ather 340 and Ather 450 in the Indian market. These are India's first homegrown electric scooters and they come equipped with a long list of features. Check out our detailed report about the new Ather 340 and Ather 450 here. Apart from the new electric smart scooters, Ather Energy also introduced Ather Grid, a network of charging stations spread at strategic locations throughout Bangalore. In recent updates, the two-wheeler brand is reportedly Read More...

The pre-bookings for India's first electric smart scooters, the Ather 340 and Ather 450 already underway. We test rode Ather Energy's flagship electric smart scooter in Bangalore for a review we were pretty impressed with the overall package, which includes Ather's well spread charging network, AtherGrid. But what makes the Ather electric scooter smart? The Ather Energy 340 and 450 electric scooters come equipped with a 7-inch touchscreen instrument console which, apart from the regular bits like odometer, speedometer and battery gauge, Read More...