Ather Energy Launches First-Ever Smart Scooters
Ather Energy, a five-year-old hardware startup of IIT graduates Tarun Mehta and Swapnil Jain, has launched India’s first-ever smart electric scooter called the ‘Ather 340’. The company has also come up with a better version of the entry-level model, which came as a surprise, along with higher power and higher speed retaining similar physical appearance named 'Ather 450'.
The Tiger Global, Hero MotoCop and the founders of Flipkart have been the investors of the startup in 2015. The scooter’s commercial launch in the two-wheeler market has been initiated more than two years after the co-founder and CEO Tarun Mehta first introduced the 340 at a tech conference in Bengaluru, stating the availability of the scooter by the end of 2016. But the delay occurred because of the company’s struggle ...