I think it’s necessary to change battery every point of plant. Just like gas cylinder. So we can put a charged battery. I saves riders time and it’s more effective…
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Seems new battery tech is being developed by another start up
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This is more of a wish for next Ather products.
While I love 450 and the Grid concept, the idea of charging network won’t be practical or would not scale as there would be rise in EVs. Imagine 20K/30K EVs on road and you are waiting for a free grid point to charge.
Once you get a free grid point, need to wait for an hour to charge.
This is where swappable battery infra would help. Gogoro has proved this. Here is a recent video of it.
I wish next product of yours would have a swappable battery and infra 
It just takes less than a minute to swap and go !!
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Can anyone detail the discussion and conclusion points in the open hose happened today?
The range of 45KM per charge reported by early owners on brand new battery is really scary. We have decided to pay extra premium blindly believing the true range combined with other supporting features. True range claimed by Ather was the major USP convinced many. If you can’t deliver on basic promise, how can we trust about your other promises?
I doubt there would be numerous problems in delivery, Ather grid, service and connected services. As early adopters we can understand some genuine problems. But please stop comparing yourself with Tesla for every problem you face. Seriously it is demeaning them and Elon.
Tesla never gave nasty surprises on basic promise as range and delivered on every promise except delivery schedule. And they worked hard and slowly increased the production.
Please clear the doubts over claimed range and performance. Anything less than promised in these two will have tremendous impact on Ather purchase.
Thanks
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Right… even I am surprized how Ather team has not replied to 2 basic queries… I am seriously considering to opt for a refund due to being ignored.
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Ther Ather Open House was more or less dedicated to the topic of Range. Here is a post from one of the attendees. Ownership Experience
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Instead of fixed battery can we have detachable lithium battery. some of them will not be having house in ground floor and if they take basic Ather data plan they wont be able to charge in Ather energy grid stations, How do they charge vehicle?
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May be you can read this blog…
there is no plan for detachable battery.
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On Li-ion battery
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On Graphene based battery
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If in the future, battery packs with higher capacity are available, or there are newer technologies like supercapacitors, is it possible to retrofit them into our Ather scooters?
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Hey @nit1995,
It would be too early to know anything on that today, given the near saturation in Li-ion tech in the last few years.
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@ Shreyas
As every one knows battery will be major replacement cost after 3 or 4 years what would be new battery cost currently.
Or tentative costing for replacement battery
By now you should have pricing clarity on this
Plz reply TIA
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35k is the estimated price… but Ather claims 8 years life before replacing one,
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Is there a future possibility of putting more battery packs or doubling the Li-ion cells on existing model to increase range?
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even am interested to hear on this please
i think we should have 4Kw battery which will be good for most of the needs and let us not forget charging tine should be same or lesser…
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Not sure if this is the right forum, but I’ve had my Ather for a couple of months now (haven’t had a chance to ride a lot though - only ~110km).
I’ve noticed this week that the battery capacity seems to have dropped significantly.
I’m show 54km on a full charge with ECO, and 49km without it.
In practice this seems to have been the case as well.
Not sure if this is the case with my particular vehicle or a larger issue.
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Hey @karthikb351,
It’s highly unlikely that the battery capacity has dropped. This has more to do with the predicated range of the vehicle based on your riding pattern.
Would recommend you check out the Ownership experience thread where this has been discussed in quite detail.
Helpful posts:
Post 1
Post 2
Post 3
Post 4
Post 5
Post 6
Do get back to me if you still need more clarity on this after reading these 
Regards,
Shreyas
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That makes sense @Shreyas. Thanks.
Perhaps this should be better surfaced to the user in some way, since there is no indication that this is an estimate that has come down based on usage/riding patterns. To me it just looked like the range dropped one day despite charging it fully.
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