India Goes Electric With Battery-Swapping Rickshaws
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A not quite two-year-old joint venture between electric car maker Virya Mobility 5.0 and solar power company SUN New Energy Systems, SUN Mobility is working with EV makers, providing the batteries for those vehicles. When they run low, the driver heads to a SUN station and exchanges them for fresh ones, paying only for the electricity he has consumed.“Our solutions for India need to be a little different,” says cofounder Chetan Maini, a longtime advocate for ditching internal combustion. “When you separate the batteries, it’s cost neutral in the immediate term and cheaper in the mid to long term,” Maini says.SUN Mobility is starting off not with cars, but with autorickshaws and buses. (Both companies are also working with battery providers running on traditional plug-and-charge models.) “We have tied up with SUN Mobility for when swap solution makes sense,” said Karthick Athmanathan, head of electric vehicles and e-mobility at Ashok Leyland.
As said here by Megha Bahree