Badjatya drives automotive electrification with strategic partners
In line with its climate pledge and commitment to sustainably build a fleet of 10,000 EVs by 2025, Amazon India is collaborating with SUN Mobility in battery swap technology for its pan-India transportation network.
“Our collaboration with SUN Mobility is yet another step in the direction of building this fleet and enabling it with industry’s leading battery swap technology,” said Abhinav Singh, Director – Customer Fulfilment, Supply Chain and Global Specialty Fulfilment, Amazon India.
“Maharashtra is a very important state and has a significant delivery network and with this cross-industry collaboration, we will be able to deliver packages to a large customer base more sustainably,” he said on 22 June 2022.
“In line with our climate pledge, we made a commitment to sustainably build a fleet of 10,000 EVs in our transportation network by 2025,” he underlined.
Amazon and SUN Mobility have been working on deploying electric vehicles for last-mile delivery, and setting up Sun Mobility-operated swapping points at Amazon sites.
Currently, there are 200+ vehicles deployed using SUN Mobility’s swap solutions for Amazon’s delivery operations across Delhi-NCR and Bangalore, covering 12,500+ km and clocking 1,250+ swaps daily.
To take this partnership further, several Swap PointsTM are also being commissioned at different Amazon sites across Mumbai, Pune, Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad.
“This expansion will further strengthen our partnership with Amazon while enabling them with environment-friendly delivery options pan-India,” said Anant Badjatya, CEO of SUN Mobility.
The Bengaluru company is setting up an enabling ecosystem to drive automotive electrification with strategic partners including Indian Oil, Amazon, OEM partners like Piaggio, Omega Seiki, Hero Electric and Greaves.
“Our investments in setting up a battery swapping network is a testimony to our commitment to making Maharashtra a greener state,” he underlined.
SUN Mobility plans to deploy over 100 swap stations in Mumbai itself and followed by such points at Pune in this financial year (FY22-23).
This network will support over 4,000 EVs (2W and 3W for goods and passengers) in these two cities using SUN Mobility’s battery swapping technology.
SUN Mobility plans to set up over 2,000 Swap PointTM across the state of Maharashtra by 2025 supporting over 200,000 electric two- and three-wheelers which are expected to clock over 300,000 swaps per day.
The EV operations supported by SUN Mobility Swap PointTM network are expected to reduce vehicular CO2 emissions in the state by 300,000 tons per annum. fiinews.com
