{"id":453829,"date":"2021-12-03T10:37:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T05:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=453829"},"modified":"2021-12-03T11:24:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T05:54:59","slug":"bounce-opens-bookings-for-its-first-ev-looks-to-raise-more-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bounce-opens-bookings-for-its-first-ev-looks-to-raise-more-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Bounce opens bookings for its first EV, looks to raise more capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scooter rental startup Bounce on Thursday started taking bookings for its first electric scooter that it plans to start selling by March next year as the company joins a long list of non-automotive companies in India looking to ride the transition to electric mobility.<\/p>\n<p>Capitalising on the momentum of opening bookings, Bounce also plans to raise a fresh round of capital in January. The funds will be used to invest in future product development and setting up and scaling a battery swapping network.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a different approach than its peers, the Bengaluru-based company is betting big on battery swapping. It is one of the first in India to give the customer the option of buying its electric scooter without a battery, bringing the cost as low as Rs 45,100 for a scooter sold without batteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scooter rental startup Bounce on Thursday started taking bookings for its first electric scooter that it plans to start selling by March next year as the company joins a long list of non-automotive companies in India looking to ride the transition to electric mobility. Capitalising on the momentum of opening bookings, Bounce also plans to raise a fresh round of capital in January. The funds will be used to invest in future product development and setting up and scaling a battery swapping network. Taking a different approach than its peers, the Bengaluru-based company is betting big on battery swapping. It [&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":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453829","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=453829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}