‘Think Green. Think EV’ initiative starts in Bangalore
City Link Portal Pvt Ltd, a leading tech enabled within city logistics start-up in Bangalore, has taken delivery of its first set of Electric Cargo Vehicles (EV), which will help it position itself aggressively in the rapidly expanding ‘Last Mile’ delivery space, under its ‘Think Green. Think EV’ initiative.
“The EV foray is our firm resolve to grow responsibly and continue to bring value to all our customers, vendor partners and drivers,” the founder and investor of City Link, R. Jayakumar said on 5 Jan 2021 announcing the launch of vehicles from Mahindra and Mahindra.
“Though we are a start-up, we do not believe in any kind of wasteful BURN, CASH OR FUEL. Our objective is wealth and value creation with equal emphasis on environment protection, and we are committed to passing on a cleaner legacy to gen next,” said Jayakumar.
City Link is believe to be the first company in Bangalore to receive the ‘Mahindra Treo-Zor’ vehicles.
City Link planned ‘Think Green. Think EV’ initiative late last year and has been working with the EV Ecosystem ever since. While the onset of COVID-19 slowed down the progress, it provided just the right opportunity for City Link to learn from vehicle manufacturers, owners, battery manufacturers and potential customers alike.
“City Link is convinced that besides being environment friendly, EVs are expected to drive ROI and bring down delivery costs when compared to existing alternatives. We are looking to add 100-120 EVs in a year’s time towards our Last Mile Push,” co-founder and CEO Puneet Prakash said.
City Link, has been serving a broad customer base from large Enterprises, to SMEs to individuals for their trucking requirements, through a mix of its Planned Demand and On Demand offerings. Using the Trucking Tech suite QuikMove, it is able to match demand/supply pockets, enhance asset utilization and delivery efficiency, provide real time visibility, optimize route/load carrying and above all, make an erstwhile manual system completely automated and intelligent.
Having commenced with small EVs, City Link will continue to align with all the EV stakeholders including the Government to expand its EV service offerings with larger vehicles in the mid-mile and first mile segments. City Link believes that the EV shift in the commercial vehicle space shall be led by smaller vehicles with up to 500-550 kg payload capacity. The larger vehicles will witness a slow transition in about 2-3 years, given the constraints with regards to related infrastructure and battery cost.
However, a rapidly evolving ecosystem coupled with a comprehensive govt. policy focus, may bring in this paradigm shift, sooner than later.
City Link is a unique blend of domain expertise and cutting edge technology to solve the supply demand mismatch, resulting out of a highly fragmented trucking vendor base, bringing to its customers assured vehicle availability, real time visibility, route/load optimization and enhanced asset utilization for its vendor partners. #technology #transportation #investment #evehicles #renewables /fiinews.com
