Swapnil Jain
@swapniljain89
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Co-founder @atherenergy Technology, music, jokes and anything stupidly ambitious. Reduce Reuse Recycle in that order
Bangalore
Joined January 2013
The Kannada Rajyotsava celebrations at @atherenergy were a lively tribute to Karnataka’s formation, celebrating the state’s rich history and its amazing contributions to the country. The team had the opportunity to learn about the history of Bengaluru and Karnataka from our
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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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We started Ather because we were fascinated by Engineering and building products. But when it came to putting those products in the hands of customers supply chain and manufacturing processes started becoming the next big challenge. From those early days of assembly line.
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India is a land of amazing talent. Design in India is incomplete without growing and believing in Indian talent. At Ather we haven't just designed in India, but it is 100% designed by Indians. No tech transfer, no Expats in the entire 11 years of existence. The entire
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We are excited about our investments in Maharashtra. With our expanding product portfolio and the increasing consumer demand for our products, we decided to strategically diversify our production capabilities to an additional location that will be closer to more markets in the.
Big investment in Maharashtra in automotive sector!. Welcome to Maharashtra, Ather !.Just got done with a meeting with the Founder of Ather Energy, Shri Swapnil Jain and I’m glad to share that he informed about their great decision that Ather Energy, the leading electric scooter
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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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Amazing #AtherRizta launch in the city Nagpur in presence of Hon. Minister @nitin_gadkari . Amazing crowd comprising of existing 450 owners who fell in love with yet another Ather product. As expected MagicTwist stole the show!
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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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It's surprising how many people still believe that the major value add happens in factories and not in RnD centers. If we have to truly become a product nation, people with money need to realise where the real value add is!.
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Full EV garage is ready. Liberating not to worry every km of ride!
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Unplanned turn of events led us to open out newest CoCo showroom in my hometown Ulhasnagar. Excited to crack the EV Market in Ulhasnagar!
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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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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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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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Today I learned how PR works. Internal teams asking to get into news by building tech and all. Thanks @ganeshunwired for reminding me of the humble beginnings. I am sure it was just me who was in chappals 😂
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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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Hence Ather Energy and not Ather motors.
If you don’t understand this chart, keep staring at it until you do.
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Loving the comments on this video :). As one of the comments says. This is the best advertisement for Ather. Why India's OG Electric Scooter Company is Failing? - Ather Energy Case . via @YouTube.
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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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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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Available in the 450X for about a year now 😎.
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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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Took a trip to Odisha - India's best kept secret, asked Claude to convert to travel blog as I am too lazy to write. (Gemini was just bad and Chatgpt was hallucinating a lot.). A Winter Journey Through Odisha: Heritage, Nature, and Art. This December, I embarked on a six-day.
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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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There should be a law on how much lowest setting ACs can go to. Probably more useful than energy efficiency ratings. I still don’t understand why there is 17deg settings for AC. Theaters and conference rooms are alwayd freezing. Helps no one.
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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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गोविन्दा आला रे, Ather वर्ती.
Dahi handi. On a scooter. On a slope. Brought to you by the magic of AutoHold™. #DahiHandi #Janmashtami #Ather #Ather450X #AutoHold
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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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Air coolers and Matka are the most underrated means of cooling.
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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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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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Interoperability is key to success of EVs. It is a very underleveraged lever, with a very high potential to drive electrification in LEVs. This is where we need industry collaboration and not competition.
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Always happy to extend our love to the Ather family. Rishta ki shuruat Rizta ke saath, haha!.
So this happened last weekend!. Darshan wanted to make his baraat entry on Rizta and we had to make it happen for his grand entrance. And, why not? Rizta is all about family.
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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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Seeing a lot of these on the road. Glad to see these replacing those black smoke emitting Bmtc busses.
Electric buses are the heartbeat of sustainable urban mobility. Cleaner cities, quieter streets, and a brighter future 🌱🚍 #Sustainability #GreenTransit.# BMTC EV Bus's.# 850 EV Buss at your service and more adding soon. Which is ur favourite 🤔☺️
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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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As org sizes grow org structures and ways of working seem to be the most critical thing for maintaining speed. It is a very complex, and non sexy topic. The more I read about it, the more I get fascinated about it. I don't see much research on it and don't think any Bschools
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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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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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That's why ensuring your batteries age well is done by engineers and not marketing.
This did not age well. .
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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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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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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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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. 1/4
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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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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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This year is all about Supply chain issues.
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Vertical integration in design is very critical to the growth of EVs (as would be true with any new technology). The EV architecture is evolving and the OEMs need to have 100% idea of where the costs are coming from and they need to have a clear roadmap.
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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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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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Since the start of interoperability from Dec 23 we have had 1.3L cross platform charging sessions between Ather and Vida chargers and vehicles. This is how powerful interoperability is. With more players coming onboard we can eliminate charging anxiety completely.
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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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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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The Rakhi is made of plastic, in a cover of plastic, on top of it there is bubble wrap, all of this inside another plastic cover. What was wrong with threads?.
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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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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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