Not just riding data, but lots of research, and talking to customers as well. Apart from that, we also talk to people who ride two wheelers to understand their usage.
I think he said a looooottt more than the number of 450s.
Removing mandatory subscription is a welcome move, but considering cost of product is still too high with similar/ greater performance ICE vehicle (ref https://forum.atherenergy.com/t/ather-450x-discussions/4630/1657) you must consider giving all Ather services free of cost atleast for the warranty period / 3 years for who buying upfront.
Almost all new evs provides connected technologies in one form escpecially 4 wheelers.
Also asking money in name of fixes to system is not fair, its your responsibility to fix if any bug in product sold.
And about new features you can list new features when ready let customers choose to buy that.
Exactly told @lajith4u.Ather is asking money for bug which the company introduced during delivery of vehicle.Its company responsibility to correct the same without additional cost.Is mobile company or microsoft is asking money to correct the bug? It is not ethical to ask money in terms of ather connect subscription.I do understand that ather connect subscription includes other perks also.But They should have put an option to connect through local wifi and use those perks and also use for update.@ather.team@abhishek.balaji
The subscription is not just for fixes, it’s for new features, improvements, and connected services. To get a sense of what the feature additions and improvements are, you can check out info about the OTAs we’ve rolled out till now:
i just saw this in email and realised what you said. I don’t mean the series / parallel combination. I mean the array itself is 12x15 to keep the casing dimension the same. This is just a guesstimate.
at around 3.5v per cell, If i am designing the pack it will probably be 8 groups of batteries which are interfaced in series and parallel to arrive at the required Wh.
Calculation looks good,
But how do you get the battery price 45K?
As per ather team itself after 4 years battery price will be around 40K and chances are to get lower as ev evolving fast. Also in upfront purchase if battery degrades within 3 years it can be replaced under warranty, even though battery is supposed to last longer, even the car manufactures giving 8 year warranty now.
Also 99K/159K is on road price?
Manufacturers generally give warranty period less than the actual degradation of the material. like headset for 6month , charger for 1year, mobiles for 1 year… in these cases, In normal condition you wont be able to make use of warranty. So Ather given 3years means generally Battery wont degrade below 70% before 3 year of use.