{"id":274860,"date":"2019-05-16T11:42:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T11:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=274860"},"modified":"2019-05-16T11:42:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T11:42:52","slug":"ather-energy-forays-into-chennai-eyes-50-55-charging-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ather-energy-forays-into-chennai-eyes-50-55-charging-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Ather Energy forays into Chennai, eyes 50-55 charging points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electric vehicle company Ather Energy Thursday said it has planned to set up about 50-55 fast charging network &#8211; Ather Grid points by this year-end.<\/p>\n<p>The company has set up seven Ather points here and has partnered with several cafes, restaurants, malls and gyms, marking its foray, a company statement said.<\/p>\n<p>With the charging networks, Ather Energy marks its entry into the Chennai market. The city would have Ather Space, an own experience centre, and pre-orders were set to commence in June, the statement aid.<\/p>\n<p>The charging network is supported by the Ather Grid application allowing electric vehicle owners to locate and check the availability of nearest charging points on a real- time basis.<\/p>\n<p>The company has planned to set up 6,500 charging points in 30 cities by year 2022 <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ather Grid has seen steady adoption in Bengaluru and we believe that accessible charging infrastructure is critical before launching our products in any market we enter,&#8221; company&#8217;s chief business officer Ravneet Phokela said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have already signed up with multiple partners and will add 50 charging points by the end of the year. We are working on setting-up the charging network and our experience centre &#8211; Ather Space &#8212; in time for the launch of Ather 450 in the coming weeks&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>As of May, Ather Grid has 31 charging points cross 24 locations in Bengaluru and seven locations in Chennai.<\/p>\n<p>The charging network can be used by all electric four- wheelers and electric two-wheelers through the Ather Grid application.<\/p>\n<p>Ather 450 electric vehicle is designed for city riding and can run upto a top speed of 80km\/hour. Ather 450 comes with parking assistance, which allows riders to reverse into tight parking spots among other features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric vehicle company Ather Energy Thursday said it has planned to set up about 50-55 fast charging network &#8211; Ather Grid points by this year-end. The company has set up seven Ather points here and has partnered with several cafes, restaurants, malls and gyms, marking its foray, a company statement said. With the charging networks, Ather Energy marks its entry into the Chennai market. The city would have Ather Space, an own experience centre, and pre-orders were set to commence in June, the statement aid. The charging network is supported by the Ather Grid application allowing electric vehicle owners to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}