Smart Electric Scooter S340 launched by Ather Energy based in Bangalore

Bangalore-based startup Ather Energy launched the S340 – This is India’s first smart electric scooter – for a while now and many have been waiting for a chance for a test ride. The startup’s first smart electric scooter was unveiled at the Web Summit Surge conference in Bangalore on Tuesday.

The company had not yet declared the price of the Smart Scooter. The Product will be only available by Ather’s website by the end of this year.

The S340 comes with a touchscreen dashboard that integrates cloud based data to help personalize the consumer ride experience. Features like user profile based sign in, on board navigation, pre-configured drive modes allow a personalized experience. Its integration with the S340 Mobile App keeps the rider connected with the vehicle, to configure ride and profile preferences and sync navigation routes remotely.

“The future will be connected and inevitably electric, and the Ather S340 has been built as a manifestation of this philosophy. It is an unapologetic-ally electric vehicle; it has been designed and built mostly in-house with engineering precision,” said Tarun Mehta, CEO and co-founder, Ather, while launching the product at a start-up conference called ‘Surge’ in Bangalore.

The S340 has GSM and Bluetooth connectivity. The dashboard OS is not Android, but its based on Linux. The company uses Google Maps for navigation through the web browser.

Ather Energy is the brainchild of IIT graduates Tarun Mehta and Swapnil Jain, and is among the few hardware start-ups in India. Founded in 2013, it has received the first seed fund of $1 million from Flipkart founders, Sachin and Binny Bansal in December 2014. It later received a funding of $12 million from Tiger Global in May 2015.