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Engineering all hands being addressed by our IP head.
Last quarter we filled about 47 patents and had 9 patents granted.
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I am committing myself to ensure every Indian knows that, if they have to go down the elevator they need to press only the down button. Probably the biggest UI failure in mankind's history.
Join the cause!
I think we can increase India's productivity by 0.5%.
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100,000 scooters on the road!
This year has been the biggest test for us of being a full blown manufacturing organization.
2 new Product introduction, massive supply chain disruptions, opening up entirely new Factory. All of this while doing 8x growth (and counting)
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1000!
Hitting one more milestone. Today we cross 1000 Grid points across India. The 1000th point came up in Nasik.
The largest 2W fast charging network in the world!......and growing
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Shreyas loves destroying batteries and he comes up with his own crazy ways of testing them. Last time he was seen baking his battery eating ice-cream. This time he saw a crane and got excited and wanted to test strength of our batteries.
So he decided to drop it from 40 feet.
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#AtherRizta
and its IP67 rated battery pack are set to make a BIG SPLASH at
#AtherCommunityDay24
on April 6.
Here's a Rizta cruising through 400 mm of water. Safe to say your new family scooter is puddle-proof.
#Ather
#Battery
#WaterResistant
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We end the year with the roll out of the 200kth vehicle with the same excitement as we rolled out the first!
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A lot of memories :)
While today electric vehicles have become very common knowledge starting Ather in 2013 was a very different deal. We faced several fundamental challenges.
Ather Energy didn't happen suddenly! It's the outcome of hard work by talented engineers who dreamed of creating something amazing.
@atherenergy
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OATS is the breakfast you deserve and also the one you need right now.
Healthy lifestyle products for you lungs and now for your gut as well 🙂
Launching our new line of products for a quicker and smarter start to the day — OATs for champions 🥣
Recommended by experts.
#NationalOatmealDay
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When we started Ather the team believed, you need to be your own customer first. Most of us were below 25 years of age building the first
#madeinindia
#Ev
and were crazy about vehicle dynamics. Every single choice from mid mount motor, to Aluminium cast chassis to dual disc
Well, we had our fun with ‘Diesel’.
But we are definitely not naming our first family scooter Diesel (sorry, Fast and Furious fans)
Unlike our usual names which have been more of an engineering nomenclature, we are taking a different route this time.
Introducing ‘Ather Rizta’
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The most anticipated Navigation upgrade is here
1. Live traffic
2. Two wheeler routes
Quite a few niggling issues have also been resolved, uplifting the navigation experience further!
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Full EV garage is ready.
Liberating not to worry every km of ride!
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A new generation of EVs.
While I am itching to talk about more features which we have been building for last one year, our marketing team is upset about my previous post I am not allowed to give our more details.
So leaving rest for your imagination.
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A decade ago, I had the privilege of meeting
@karunchandhok
at IIT Madras, where he shared insights into his journey and passion for motorsports. Fast forward to today, it was an honor to have him ride the 450 Apex during its launch event! As the second Indian to race at Formula
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Packaging is a major contributor of plastic in auto supply chain. While most production parts use returnable packaging, our spares part was still using plastic.
This World Environment Day. We replaced a bunch of them.
#BeatPlasticPollution
#WorldEnvironmentDay2023
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We hit 1M rides per day today! Cumulatively, Ather owners rode a total distance of 937 Mn kms till date saving over Rs. 200 crore in fuel. This also contributed to over 28000 tons of net CO2 emissions saved which is equivalent of planting 2000 hectares of forest!!
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Bumped into
@midopooler
at
@Shivallii
on Blr Mys highway. He was charging his 450X while I was charging my car.
Turned out he was doing 1000km road trip! Also he has done many such trips already. Amazing enthu!
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Been debating with the Product managers about the usefulness of this feature.
What do you guys think?
Obviously in all Indian languages!
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Had kept my 450 just near the grid point at Decathlon without an intent to charge as someone else was charging. When I come back I see the good Samaritan was done charging and had the plugged the charger to my vehicle.
The EV community is great 👍
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Manufacturing is really hard. At one time we wanted to outsource manufacturing to get the load off of us. But then we decided to take it head on. Today looks like manufacturing has becoming one of our core strength.
Steep ramp-up ahead!
Hello Hosur and 400,000 sq. ft. of open factory floors. Looks like evolution won't be kept waiting after all.
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Available in the 450X for about a year now 😎
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We have a love hate relationship with Regen! Why?
Regen has two big limitations
- In most vehicles Regen doesn't work above 80% SoC
- Regen usually struggles to bring the vehicle to full halt
Which means Regen is not consistent. If your braking is not predictable it is not a
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An unknown person in the flight boarding queue in Pune almost hysterically talking about how beautiful the 450 is and how good the build quality is, is the best closure for the year.
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It was a great collaboration between the two teams building the first interoperable charging infra network.
Today, we are also committing that any OEM that adopts the LECCS standard will have access to Ather Grid across India.
Hear that?
Get access to 1900+ combined charging points present across 100+ cities in India.
#VIDA
powered by
@HeroMotoCorp
and
@atherenergy
have joined hands to offer interoperable fast-charging stations across the country.🙌🏼
Stay tuned for easier and more accessible charging.😍
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If you are not already aware
@TWorksHyd
is an amazing ecosystem initiative.
Prototyping is a very big challenge for all hardware startups and more initiatives like these can really people bring their ideas to market faster and in an cost effective manner.
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Just received the 2023 AIMA Young Entrepreneur of the year award along with
@tarunsmehta
from Hon Min Shri
@JM_Scindia
.
Thankyou
@aimaindia
for this honour and acknowledging
@atherenergy
's efforts in the EV space!
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Manufacturing and Software product development is more similar than different. It's fun to interact with the two teams who think they are very different and see them in the end say the same things.
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I am a fanboy of our own creative team.
Bengaluru's very own
#ManInRedAndWhite
, Seven Raj, was not red-y for what we had in store for him 🎈🍎☎️👠🎒🖍️
#NewYearNewWheee
#Ather450X
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कृत्रिम बुद्धिमत्ता द्वारा प्रामाणित
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We are paranoid about customer safety, we would rather not launch a feature, than launch one with the slightest risk to customer safety.
Being National road safety week, here are some which we actually launched
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Moving away from only make in India to Design in India, one patent at a time
This is how India celebrated INNOVATION on its 75th Republic Day! 🇮🇳💡
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Even if you don't buy electric vehicle, just make sure to kill the engine at Signals folks. It serves no purpose to keep the engine running.
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Air coolers and Matka are the most underrated means of cooling
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To mark the 10th year of of building many firsts in the 2-wheeler industry, we wanted to build a product that defines Ather's journey so far.
Launching few more industry first features!
Launch on 6th Jan at 12 PM. Set a reminder here!
#ApexofAther
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Already the largest fast charging network in the country, expanding at a neck break pace.
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फैलके बैठो
There are a lot folks who love
@atherenergy
but wanted a bigger scooter from us. So when we were designing our family scooter we made sure we tick that box. I wanted to give you all a sneak peek of what we mean by "bigger."
To give you a perspective, here is the seat of one of
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It is so stupid that while every org wants their teams to work collaboratively and as a single team, they all give targets and incentives which are individual based.
Also more often than not, those individual targets conflict with each other. And then we wonder why orgs
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This will be a huge another step in promoting
#designinindia
.
While we have been gaining traction in
#MakeInIndia
, just manufacturing is still a very amount of value add. The majority of the value add in technology sits with Design.
As a nation we need to build a lot more IP,
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After witnessing few product development cycles I can say this
5 stages of new product development in a big organization
Ignorance
Panic
Bargaining
Excitement
Boredom
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Location tracking on the home screen.
Just saying, in case someone steals your vehicle.
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Amongst many other exciting launches, on the second edition of Ather Community Day, we also launched
#AtherStack
6.0.
Starting with Coasting Regen, which will now be backward compatible up to Gen 3!
Now, about some exciting features that we have incorporated, there was a lot
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Warp Mode!
I have achieved my life goal by launching a product with
#StarTrek
reference in it.
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An account of what happened yesterday.
Various team members were on their toes last night to perform the root cause analysis
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2 months in lockdown without charge, and the vehicle charges smoothly.
Even I was afraid what will happen after two months, but looks like the boys played well.
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All this doing it remotely and during a pandemic and still delivering right on time. The team has done an amazing job! Proud moment.
1⃣2⃣3⃣0⃣0⃣0⃣ square feet
9 months of effort 👩🏭👨🏭
🔟X increase in production
4000 man hours spent in architecting and implementing Industry 4.0 solutions 🏭🏭🏭
Countless ideas and process improvements
One step closer to an electric revolution
One electric growth story ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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Well guess who visited
@atherenergy
this Saturday!
We had the opportunity to host
@gujarat_titans
team. We engaged them in lame games and they were quite sporty (and competitive) for those. Amazing humor and wisdom filled conversation with Rashid, David and Shubmam.
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That's why ensuring your batteries age well is done by engineers and not marketing
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Most people haven't realised that of the Li-ion vehicles we have had the vehicles on the road for the longest time.
5 years and going strong!
Yes. That's me. I've had the
@atherenergy
for about 5 years now and it has been a blast! I've pre-booked nearly every model Ather has launched till date but never went through to actually finishing the purchase because I felt my 1st Gen 450 still had so much to offer!
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A collaboration of Public and Private transport.
Allowing you to do 100% of your trip in a clean manner.
Chennai Division has set up Electric Vehicle (EV) charging facility at Mandaveli and Saidapet Railway stations
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Forget 450, it's just a great shot
I usually take my car to the airport and park it there overnight for short trips, taking the
@atherenergy
for the first time :) What a beauty :)
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Save the date! 6th April
#AtherCommunityDay2024
#AtherCommunityDay2024
is back on April 6 ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Keep an eye on your inbox, invites dropping soon ✉️
#AtherCommunity
#NewLaunch
#Ather
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It was amazing to showcase what India can do in design and engineering at the
#BharatMobilityGlobalExpo2024
Made in India.
Displayed at
@bharat_mobility
.
Here's a
#throwback
to everything that we showcased from Feb 1-3 at
#BharatMobilityGlobalExpo2024
, starting off with the very peak of performance - the
#Ather450Apex
.
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Looking to hire folks to help strengthen our supply chain as we move towards aggressive expansion.
If you know someone, do let me know. Thanks
Meanwhile here's a meme to entertain you
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The amount of time it takes to travel from Whitefield to JP Nagar they should at least have a pantry inside 500C
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Grid 2.0 was primarily designed keeping scalability in mind. The complete design has been re-architected for better cost, speed of installation, footprint at host location, reliability, and horizontal and vertical scaling.
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As the preorders started flowing in, suddenly departments within Ather collapsed, the (healthy) disagreements between all teams disappeared. It was just one Ather. Sudden realisation, there is nothing which can bind an org together better than the Customer.
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Spot the 450 😃
Named after one of the foremost Civil Engineers Bharat Ratna Sir M Visvesvaraya, India's first centralised AC Railway terminal in Bengaluru is all set to become operational soon.
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This year is all about Supply chain issues
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With
@QuickRidein
offering all airport taxis in electric in Blr and
@BluSmartIndia
having great reach in Delhi, my entire round trip to Delhi was possible in electric vehicle. Great times for clean mobility :)
P.S. both fleet operators also had very well behaved driver partners
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Wonder why do the ACs in India can go upto 17deg temperature!
Waste of energy, and people sit in the room wearing sweaters
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To enable faster idea to feature conversion we have started Ather labs. This allows us to experiment faster, get feedback faster and be better aligned to the needs to the customers.
The end customers choose what they would like to try from a bunch of early ideas :)
We have tons of ideas for Ather. But only so much we can do. So we made Ather Labs to experiment with new software features & let owners decide if it works or not. If it's a hit, we develop it as a full feature
First experiment— Savings Tracker for fuel cost & CO2 emissions saved
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With about 1k+ messages per second, the 450X is probably the biggest and most complex IoT implementation in the country.
This blog by
@divyansh971111
talks about the
@zeromq
implementation on the 450s
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Consistency has been at the heart of how we have designed the 450X. Focus has been to ensure that the rider gets the same performance all throughout the range of the battery so that at the lowest level of battery you can still climb your climbs without needing to push
Ola S1 Pro v Ather 450X Gen 3 v Bajaj Chetak v TVS iQube - real world range test! The video is out on our Youtube Channel. Click on the link :-
@OlaElectric
@atherenergy
@_bajaj_auto_ltd
@tvsmotorcompany
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Could the 450x BE any cheaper!
Govt of India doubles down on its commitment towards
#goingelectric
. Subsidy for electric 2W increases under
#FAME2
incentives.
Which means a whopping ₹14,500 additional subsidy on the
#ATHER450X
. Haven't booked it yet? Now seems like a good time:
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Single use PP straps got replaced with reusable velcro straps, and plastic tapes got replaced by paper tapes water activated adhesives.
Kudos to the Packaging and warehouse team
@atherenergy
for these efforts.
To make CFO happy, they got cost reduction while doing the same :P
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'Not boring' was the guiding principle when the 450X was conceived.
Some of the decisions of no hub motor, only alloy wheels (to reduce unsprung mass), centered CG, Cast aluminium frame and yes the supermodel skinny tyres were all chosen to ensure the scooter is not boring.
1 in 3 two-wheelers sold in India is a scooter. But they're all boring, practical, family transport... wrong! Scooters can be fun. Fun is important: meet India's best scooters!
#MotorInc
#MotorIncView
#MotorIncBalance
#TVSNtorq
#YamahaAerox
#Ather450X
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'Work smarter, not harder' my biggest takeaway from the world's richest duck!
People productivity is such an under appreciated topic. We need to start thinking harder in terms of productivity.
Working smarter should be as glamorous as putting long hours.
The growth of India’s labour productivity—output per person per hour—has been tepid. And working longer hours is not a solution.
Mint looks at the reasons for the low productivity growth and what needs to be done to improve it.
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Quicker than a 160cc; plus you wouldn't feel guilty about burning all the petrol for the sporty feel
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Woke up in the morning and put on CNBCTV18. Officially an uncle now.
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While the cities are becoming more aware of avoiding use of single use plastic, the situation in villages and small towns is really bad.
Single use polythene bags, cutlery especially in weddings are extensively being used with very poor waste management and awareness.
The
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Speaking on behalf of the engineering team, nothing gives us as much pleasure as to see the product we built with first principles clocking so many kms on the road.
It's a rare opportunity for most engineers, going from theory to real world!
A lot of learnings along the way
Here’s to all of you warping day-in and day-out. We have now ridden one billion kilometres together!
#WheeeCrossedOneBillion
⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️
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Congratulations Pulkit!
Coincidently I ran into Pulkit while I was fast charging my car at the same place. True wanderlust and tech savvy person. It was fun seeing all his GoPro videos of the rides :)
We are celebrating those who have pushed their scooters to the max with Ather
Hey folks,
I used to go on solo trips on my Ather 450x across the south India where I’ve covered many parts of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Goa.
Wherever I go, I used to plan my travel keeping Ather grid fast chargers in my route bcz who’ll wait for slow ones.
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Thermal management of batteries is not just about avoiding performance drop. It has a big role to play in terms of battery life.
The longer your battery stays at higher temperatures, the higher the degradation of battery life.
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New Year. New Milestones!
⚡ 18.7 million kms in Warp 🚀
⚡ 56.6 million kms in December alone 🗓️
⚡ 389 million kms in total 🛣️
These are just a few of the milestones we crossed in 2022.
For the complete ride summary, check out:
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Publishing our first Impact report . It's not just important to build a great company or great product, we have to be able to track our impact on our people, policy, and the planet
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I believe it is wrong to look at it as good or bad talent, it is about how effective collaboration between people is.
Organisations are about teams, never about individuals. Brilliant people with poor collaboration will give bad outcome.
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We have installed our 100th Ather Grid! This essentially means you can roam around the city without any fear of being our of charge.
We strongly believe that EVs and Grids should grow together to provide the ultimate EV experience to consumers.
#NooruInBengaluru
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If you are also excited about
#StarTrekPicard
here's something more interesting for you.
What's common between
#Ather450x
and Star Trek universe?
Find out on 28th Dec :)
Hint: Engage!
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Ok so it turned out that the team worked with the authorities to get the homologation issue sorted and make it backward compatible.
Then things got lost during Apex development.
This tweet helped, and now most of your vehicles should be having ESS back until Gen2.
Hopefully
@swapniljain89
ESS is also a safety feature , it couldn’t make it to gen 3 scooters and other promised features, pls find a workaround and make it backwards compatible .
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Appliances industry really needs good product managers. Kent eg has 30 variants of water purifier to choose from. All appliances have variant name which two you nothing about what that varitent does and the comparator are also useless.
One just cannot make an informed decision
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Fall Safe -
A challenge with EVs is that you never know when the motor is turned on. The drawback of this is in case a vehicle has suffered a fall, unknowingly a person trying to lift the vehicle can end up twisting the throttle. This can be fairly dangerous, especially given
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It's 2020 folks, it's time to move on from old generation of vehicles.
We are bringing in new experience for vehicles
We are unveiling the
#Ather450X
on 28th Jan
We're unveiling the
#Ather450X
28.01.2020
Block your calendars. Cancel all plans. Take the day off work. Tune in to the live stream. Get excited for the
#Ather450X
.
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Single use plastic ban, best news ever. Hopefully implementation will be strong as well.
I personally don't subscribe to compromising on lifestyle, but with some mindfulness one can eliminate a lot of plastic from day to day use.
Few things personally I have been trying:
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Bunch of us at Ather been trying to find out if we can help with concentrators in any way. Does anyone have idea on what is the need of the hour with concentrators?
Want to align efforts in right direction
P.S. My earlier tweet had a typo which made complete opposite sense :P
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