Ather Energy is expected to have a busy few months ahead. The company is set to begin production of the new 450X at its Bengaluru plant this September-October, expand into eight new cities in India, is readying a new manufacturing plant in Hosur and is also planning to export its e-scooters to international markets.
The upcoming plant in Hosur will have a production capacity of 1,00,000 units. Ather tells us that it can be scaled five-fold, to 5,00,000 units. Production is slated to commence in December 2020, following which the company plans to begin exports.
Speaking exclusively to our sister publication, Autocar Professional, Ravneet S Phokela, Chief Business Officer, said: “We have had an interesting conversation with a cluster in South East Asia where electrics are already popular, so much so that we were very close to doing pilots in these markets and we were in very…
