Bengaluru: Bengaluru-based electric two-wheeler manufacturer Ather Energy on Saturday announced four new offerings — Konarc, its newest scooter; Ather True Health, a comprehensive vehicle health report and resale-value assessment; the fifth-generation Ather Bedrock Battery platform; and Ather Node, a charging solution for apartment communities.
Together, these announcements are expected to address key barriers consumers continue to face with electric two-wheelers, from everyday usability and battery safety to long-term battery health, resale value and access to convenient home charging, the company said.
Konarc, the first product built on Ather’s new EL platform, is targeted at mainstream Indian riders, focusing on ride comfort, stability, everyday usability, and serviceability. It is available in six variants across the S and Z product lines, with IDC range options from 100 km to 200 km. All variants come with the fifth-generation Bedrock Battery and a 10-year/1,00,000 km warranty with a 70% state-of-health guarantee.”Each of these comes from a different problem we have been working on, but the larger goal is the same: to keep removing the barriers that come with new technology and make EVs a more natural choice for more people,” said Tarun Mehta, Co-Founder & CEO, Ather Energy.
According to Ather, the Bedrock Battery platform offers BreachSense, a real-time monitoring system designed to detect microscopic damage following a high-impact accident within hours. The new platform also has five times higher cell-balancing capability than the previous generation.
With this, Ather expects batteries to reach 70% state of health much later at approximately 1 lakh to 1.2 lakh km, compared to around 80,000 to 1,00,000 km for the previous generation.
Ather Node is designed to address charging challenges in residential and commercial spaces with limited available load. It uses a single central gateway system to manage up to 1,000 chargers within a complex, allowing users to have a dedicated charging point in their parking spaces.
