Buying Ather’s electric scooter will be easy, the company started 100 experience centers

Electric two-wheeler maker Ather Energy has announced the opening of 100 experience centres. Some of the company’s experience centers are present in Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai. New Experience Centers have been started in Rajkot, Hubli, Dehradun, Tuticorin and Sangli. The company said that their number will be doubled in the next six months.

The company’s co-founder and CEO, Tarun Mehta informed that Ather Energy has also introduced the AutoHold feature for the Gen 3 electric scooters launched last year. This allows the scooter to detect that it has been stopped on an uphill or downhill slope and prevent a fall by holding on. The brake is not used in this feature and it works automatically. This Scooter Can also be disabled in the Settings menu. Apart from this, the company has also given a new ride interface which shows the power usage and consumption. The company is also preparing to bring some new features.

Ather sold one lakh electric scooters in January Production has crossed. The company’s sales have increased significantly in the last year. Sales of electric vehicles are increasing rapidly in the country and electric two-wheelers have a major contribution in this. Sales of electric two-wheelers in the country may increase to 22 million units by 2030. Ather had achieved the milestone of selling 50,000 electric scooters last year. Ather recently announced several upgrades for the Ather 450 electric scooter series at its Community Day event.

These included the AtherStack 5.0 software, the company’s biggest software upgrade to date. Atherstack 5.0 brings a new UI, which has many new features. Not just this, Ather has also added four new color options to the 450 lineup. Apart from this, an upgrade program was started for the existing customers. The company claims that the Atherstack 5.0 will also improve the performance of the electric scooter as it helps extract maximum torque from the scooter for a longer period of time without derating. It is also claimed to get highly accurate range estimation down to the last percentage of the battery. Also it will enable auto cut-off as soon as the charger is plugged in which will give longer battery life.