Thank You 
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Regarding charging, to begin with, I am a heavy person 
. Also we rode doubles. Maybe they are some of the reasons we got less range. We rode in the ride mode itself and used regen after the charge fell below 85%. Before Tumkur, since it was our first ride on the highway, we did not know much on the scooter. I had ridden it only in the city traffic. I cruised at a speed of around 60 kmph on the journey to Tumkuru. Since the road also consists of series of elevated stretches, it might have affected the efficiency a bit. Then I realised that I needed to slow up a bit, which I did later on. Probably, my riding was not so efficient yet. I am thinking of riding to Thirthahalli, which is about 60 km from Shivamogga and if possible, furthur to Agumbe, (25 km from Thirthahalli). Another trip on the list is to Sagara ( 70 km from Shivamogga) and if possible to Jog falls ( 30 km from Sagara). Will test the mileage again during that. I have relatives house at Thirthahalli, Agumbe, and Sagara where I am planning to charge it. If possible I could also get some fresh and green electricity generated at Jog 
The only problem is the time we have to wait while it charges, which is nearly 2.5 to 3 hours.Have to see how it goes.
Regarding charging in Bhadravathi, there were two reasons. One was that , though we had just enough charge to reach Shivamogga, we did not want to take a risk. First of all, I had the task to change my mom’s perception regarding electric scooter. We did not want to reach home pushing the scooter, in case we ran out of charge. This would have created a bad first impression regarding Ather in her mind 
. The second thing was that we also thought of visiting my dad’s cousin’s house. So it served both the purposes. Moreover, we just charged for about 45 minutes.
Regarding service, since its first service is for 5000 km, it will probably take an year or more to reach there. Also there wont be much to service in between. When we reach 5000 km, probably we would ship it to Bengaluru by train, get it serviced and ship it back.
Coming to registration, it was a very bitter experience. Since ours was the first electric scooter to be registered in Shivamogga, I had to fight with the RTO people to get it registered. I have visited the RTO continuously for a week, leaving all my work only to wait there and fight. Before buying the scooter, I had enquired with the local RTO regarding the registration. They ensured me that they will follow the same procedure as followed in Bengaluru. But later it was a complete U turn. Even though, all electric two wheeler are exempted from road tax, they were forcing me to pay tax at 4% of the vehicle value, which would be around Rs 5000. I even showed them the notification about the tax exemption being put up on the RTO Karnataka website and the Karnataka Electric Vehicle Policy.
I tried to convince them that the vehicle is exempted from tax in Bengaluru itself. Yet, they would not agree. Especially, the accounts superintend, Mr. Bhosle acted as the main villain 
. He was very rude and arrogant with us. He treated us as if we are desperately trying to evade tax. I repeatedly told him I did not have any problem with paying the tax, but my argument was why should I when the legislation clearly exempts it? They themselves were not updated. Upon that they would blame me for producing outdated documents. They said that the government has amended the bill and the new rule is to collect 4% tax. We were so fed up with them, that we even thought of approaching the local news paper to publicise the harassment done by the RTO officials. The other option for us was to bring it to Bengaluru, get it registered and take it back. Again, all this was frustrating. Fortunately, there was one officer, who was very friendly. He understood our problem and assured that he would help us. He contacted the Indranagara RTO, enquired about the procedure to register an electric vehicle. With his help, finally we got it registered. Mr.Bhosle was still reluctant to carry on with the registeration process. He reluctantly signed it, stating that one day we would be caught by the police for not paying the tax and that we had to face the consequence. Since the job was done, I did not care much about him and his words. After a month, I visited the RTO and found out that Mr.Bhosle was transferred else where. Probably, he was posted in Shivamogga only to trouble us. 
In the mean time, I had given many demos about the Ather to the curious people in and around the RTO . I had become quite famous among the RTO agents as “BATTERY GAADI AVARU” meaning the BATTERY VEHICLE FELLOW . Once I had gone to a furniture shop. I was shocked when the owner there suddenly asked me whether the RTO people registered my electric scooter. Upon asking how did he come to know about that, he told that he had seen me arguing with the RTO officials, when he had come there on some work. 