Hi Abhishek,
many thanks for your updates. I believe riding between 40-50 kmph is most efficient, this is what I have understood from the riding pattern screen in Atherspace. Did you reach the top of nandi hills 
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Where is the seat key
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Commendable efforts mate, this gives so much more meaning to the “true range”
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Hi Abhishek, Awesome test and thank you for spending time to share your review on forum for us.
So over all conculsion, is range prediction algorithm is the problem and needs to fixed to achieve true range if users maintains a decent speed?
Current mindset i have :
In December, Ather open house discussion team concluded to gather user data from more riders and told they may tune the range prediction algorithm and also planning to introduce super eco mode when battery range reaches 20% to achieve true range.
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There is one request mate, do post your experience driving in heavy peak hour stop gap traffic and the range and average speed you get, your thorough experiment would put a lot of people’s minds at ease regarding range
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Hello Ather gang
second day trip is good
i was cruising at above 40kmph to 45knph all the time… also haven’t used regen (may be couple of times unintentionally)
forgot to take picture at the start
when realized i did
noticed there is lot of traffic today though i have started early
there are many rented scooter and loud bikes heading towards nandi hills today (not sure if there is some party up there today)
have made sense route today exactly like yesterday (even followed wrong route which i took yesterday)
after reaching there have took the pictures and headed back without turning the key off (because this will reset the trip which i didn’t want)
i would like to stress this… am unable to get real-time battery % due to network as i had problem with my mobile network today… while heading home
battery%was stuck@42%for quite a while until i checked internet connection by opening other apps…
so i had to restart my mobile and after few kms it was updated…
below are the screenshots of battery%
here was trying to be on the white line which was on the corner of the road
thinking this would reduce rolling resistance… which might help… may be am wrong but gave a try for atleast 8to10km later flyover have these lines to extreme corner… so couldn’t do any further
now back to battery%
later i recorded a video which have uploaded to youtube to share… there is no option to share videos on forum…
again lots of data via screenshots
it would have been great if @Ather.Team have provided access to data via app…
and juice up time…
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later part post of the day my mom wanted to go to Iskon @ yeswanthpura…
so i took her there and found this road which i was excited to try
which i did and was smooth while climbing
now headed to yelhanka vegetable market
note: only for my trips am using eco otherwise am always on power mode which i enjoy in traffic by getting to a safe place on the road quickly
and at last
parking time
now at work with@10%battery
home 5km away
very easy for me
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i know
but there is lots to explore and long way to go
am not waiting
am enjoying it
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sure buddy
give me start point, end point on maps
as i am not aware much of banglore… most of the time i use to cycle around even to Ather experience center… before i got Ather450… so never went to al these places…
also mention time when do u want to start at start point
as am not aware of traffic peak points…
I’ll try to accommodate and update…
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no i didn’t go i can see hill from below
about 10km away as per first trip map
also am thinking to buy charging cable and take my mom to the hill some day
please if someone have ever been there let me know if there are any electric plug points you have noticed which are easily reachable/accessible (have never been there)
will give test ride to people who allow me to charge on the hill…
@Ather.Team. strong regen please… will help in down hill ride
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all at one place where u insert key to unlock and ignite (or should i say -close the circuit)
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I have not used the vehicle much hardly 75 km so far, my expected range displayed is 60 in eco mode, may be I need to use a bit more inorder to know the exact range I am going to get. I have two questions to the owners 1- how is the seating comfortablity? I feel little uncomfortable keep sliding down while braking. 2- the vehicle belt sound, there is a belt cranking sound when the vehicle starts moving.
Other one that I am happy with the vehicle.
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regarding seat-i cannot complain much… atleast me because am 6".2’ … even if i ride any other regular scooter ill have to sit on seat in an awkward place, so i cannot answer that question… but definitely i don’t have any complain
belt sound is there for all scooters but only at low speeds but when u r cruising at good speeds it shouldn’t be an issue
yes i would like it to be fixed by finding some engineering solution…(by Ather anyway)
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Thank you. Ather team is it possible for you to provide switchable regen strength, which can be utilised by the rider if he is coming down from hilly areas like Nandi hills
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Thanks a lot Shreyas (also to all the future owner’s)
i have been making few observations which am sharing all the time on the forum… which at-least interested are updated…
I know you guys are working hard to bring the best experience to us - which might take time but it will be good if we can provide updates ASAP (as u may know already)
may i request you to please update on priorities which Ather is working currently - may be via newsletter (as not all are on the forum or not active on the forum at-least newsletter will take their attention)
one last request please let me know if the team is working battery stats ( percentage % left, Current Consumption E.g- 100kw/h and battery temperature) - i know that they are planning some UI similar to speed but am interested to know if team can accommodate above instead
display on the dashboard of vehicle… this will help me a lot.
also i Know you are working on algorithm which gives prediction which will improve in time but can we at-least have an option to choose between the 2 (Battery % and Range left) in dashboard settings…just in case if you (Ather) wouldn’t want to display both at the same time…
thanks a lot for your appreciation again
cheers
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Thats very generous of you mate! If you can drive around the Central Business District, like Avenue Road, BVK Iyengar Road around morning or evening peak hours like 5:30-6 to 7 would be great.
It has both a combination of stop gap traffic and bad roads but it does not let you rest in between, so consumes lots of fuel on conventional ICE vehicles, your experience on the Ather would be invaluable.
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Hi Abhishek, I would like to try it out with you once with my Chinese EV. It’s all experiments. Let’s go to Nandi hills and back with one more ICE scooter as backup if we run into issues or couldn’t find charging point. I believe coming down hill will be negligible battery consumption as EV won’t drain battery if we don’t use acceleration. And regeneration would help too.
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have tried the route from Ather Space after charging to 80% with fast charger (tried first time)
so the route plan shared by our friend
get started by adding plan to google maps
now lets get started
i was little amazed with traffic and for such a short distance there are traffic signals for every 2 blocks!!! till first point
now the real video game started
both Ather dashboard navigation and google were trying to serve me better pointing different directions to second point
now am confused
took a second to think and decided to follow google maps on my mobile
and now the real surprise to me
i am not sure if those roads/lane will qualify to call as footpath even but there are so many business which are active in these lanes and people are literally every ware and appears it is pretty common for them
wish i could have taken video but it is hard to hold mobile in these lanes
now reached some how to second point
actually i didnt require either normal/power mode or Eco mode
even with park assist u feel like u r racing (but with humans)
now headed to home
note: though 450 is in Power mode -
i was in Maniac mode - was pushing limits of the scooter even with shorter gaps
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Thanks for the update.
What was the total range you got after the trip?
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So how many KMs did you travel totally and how much did Ather actually promise in the beginning?
Is there a difference between what Ather shows and Ather actually delivered in this travel since there was heavy traffic?
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