After a loooong wait of almost 2 months I got my flight today!
The Ather team was very smooth with the delivery process and they made sure that social distancing measures were maintained and even provided me with sanitary gloves.
It was a great feeling to finally receive my flight.
The time from payment window opening to getting delivery can vary based on RTO processing speeds, special requirements, financing etc. If your order ID refers to the Ather 450, you can expect it to open very soon
Penning down delivery timelines for my vehicle. This might help some folks who are eagerly waiting for their order to be delivered.
Overall a pretty good job by Ather considering the whole pandemic situation
I wanted to Buy “Chetak Electric” & pre booked in Feb and they did not deliver as promised, One of the known owner did not give a convincing reply about the process and even he was not satisfied. Anyway had eyes on ATHER 450 since beginning but I donno y I din buy earlier (current feeling ) So finally decided and waited for lockdown to be lifted and booked for a test drive when I was mentally ready to step out
Ok am here to say how easy the entire process was,
Visited for a test drive: 16th August 2020
Pre Ordered: 30th August 2020 (Payment gateway opened within 24hrs but waited for my finances to get arranged)
Payment Done: 9th September 2020
Dot Installation: 15th September 2020
Vehicle Ready for Delivery: 17th September 2020
The day I took delivery : 20th September 2020
From the day of payment till delivery got constant updates from the team and its been 15 days almost and I am in LOVE with the bird !!
This is something a lot of us weren’t blessed with. Had to wait for a good 2-3 months and some people 6-7 months too.
Good timing for buying the 450. Congratulations
Ya I’m still waiting for the pre orders to restart. Bajaj seems to have messed up a lot somehwere.
Clearly was not ok for 2 wheeler finance/loan, hence had to go for Personal Loan and other jugaads for arranging the finance. Bajaj has messed up with even for those who had booked, they are not clear & open like ATHER to be honest. ATHER is far ahead comparing to any other competitors is what I feel.
Electric vehicles are a total new level and cannot be run good the ICE framework of business. I see only dedicated brands date good at least in the scooter segment. We have had many scooters from BSA, hero etc., that even reached the lithium tier, but did not come thru.
Another factor is that they have other sources of business that they let someone else trial a path along e-vehicles that they can later follow through.
I agree they can’t use the same framework but they must know how to handle a product based on the demand.
They literally had 2-3 brands to look at on how to go about the sales and apply the same directly or with some mods based on their production capabilities. They seem to have tried something on their own and dint workout they it should have sadly ;(
) So finally decided and waited for lockdown to be lifted and booked for a test drive when I was mentally ready to step out 
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