Electric Mobility News

Sun Mobility and Smart E have entered into a strategic partnership to develop a new EV battery swapping system. Earlier this year, Sun mobility had showcased the interoperable smart mobility solution for two and three wheelers. SmartE's fleet of electric three-wheelers will make use of SUN Mobility's solution and will be deployed at SmartE park & charge Hubs across the Delhi-NCR, to cater to the first and last-mile connectivity services. The month-long field trials for this solution concluded in Gurugram last week and is claimed to be successfully. The partnership will see SUN Mobility scaling the battery swapping infrastructure in next 3 months to support 500 electric three-wheelers in Phase 1

Electric Vehicle start-up, EV Motors has launched its first public EV charging outlet- PlugNgo in India, assembled at the DLF area in Gurgaon, Haryana. EV Motors has tied up with DLF, Delta Electronics India and ABB India for further development and expansion of the project. It will be spending $ 200 million in next five years and plans to set up 6500 EV charging stations across India. The chargers will be assembled at malls and commercial complexes which will be networked and connected to PlugNgo cloud based integrated software program.

In a major move to fight air pollution, the Delhi government on Tuesday released its draft "Electric Vehicle Policy 2018", which aims to ensure adoption of 25 per cent e-vehicles among new registrations by 2023.

Ural Motorcycles of Russia has revealed a new fully electric motorcycle with a sidecar, as a concept. The motor on this concept has been taken from Zero Motorcycles of USA.

Rivian is a US based automotive start-up and the R1T is its first electric vehicle. Rivian has already started taking pre-booking orders for the R1T in USA for a token amount of $ 1,000.

This announcement places electrification at the core of Volvo's future business. It also paves way for the complete phase-out of combustion-engine-only models.

Mahindra Electric has joined hands with Three Wheels United (TWU) to sell 2000 units of the Treo Electric three-wheeler which was launched at at Rs. 2.22 (ex-showroom Bengaluru) last week. Treo is an advanced electric last mile mobility solution which is primarily aimed at metro cities to serve the purpose of metro feeders and other shared mobility usages. TWU will identify drivers and will provide financial support to them. The MoU was signed during the Auto Day 2018 celebrations on November 17, 2018. The event is an annual property organised by the TWU and brings together almost 5,000 auto drivers.

Eight months after Mahindra and Ford had announced to explore a strategic partnership to work on electric vehicles; Mahindra has shared details about the recent development. And carandbike can now confirm that Mahindra Electric, a completely owned subsidiary of the Mahindra & Mahindra which expertizes in Electric Vehicles will lead the alliance by providing the technology to develop new electric vehicles. Exclusively speaking to carandbike on the sidelines of the Mahindra Treo electric three-wheeler launch, Dr. Pawan Goenka, Managing Director and CEO, Mahindra & Mahindra said, "The alliance is not concluded yet. We are still working on as to what the alliance should exactly be and we are looking at the vehicles' platforms that Ford has. But even in that alliance the electric technology comes from Mahindra Electric. The alliance is for sharing the vehicles' platforms and not for the electric technology which comes only from Mahindra Electric and Ford could also use that."