{"id":448044,"date":"2021-11-08T08:35:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T03:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=448044"},"modified":"2021-11-08T09:01:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T03:31:44","slug":"bounce-eyes-100mn-investment-in-e-scooter-mfg-battery-swapping-infra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bounce-eyes-100mn-investment-in-e-scooter-mfg-battery-swapping-infra\/","title":{"rendered":"Bounce eyes $100mn investment in e-scooter mfg, battery swapping infra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electric scooter rental startup Bounce is making investment of about USD 100 million (around Rs 742 crore) over the next 12 months across manufacturing of e-scooters and expanding the battery swapping infrastructure, its co-founder and CEO Vivekananda Hallekere said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to PTI, Hallekere said the company will unveil its first e-scooter towards the end of the month and deliveries will start by February next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to make EV mainstream&#8230;when we&#8217;re talking about transition to EVs, we want to make sure millions of vehicles can actually practically look at it and not worry about charging infra, range or battery related issues&#8230;.We will have two variants and by November-end, we will start pre-booking and deliveries will start February-end,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric scooter rental startup Bounce is making investment of about USD 100 million (around Rs 742 crore) over the next 12 months across manufacturing of e-scooters and expanding the battery swapping infrastructure, its co-founder and CEO Vivekananda Hallekere said. Speaking to PTI, Hallekere said the company will unveil its first e-scooter towards the end of the month and deliveries will start by February next year. &#8220;We want to make EV mainstream&#8230;when we&#8217;re talking about transition to EVs, we want to make sure millions of vehicles can actually practically look at it and not worry about charging infra, range or battery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448044","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}