Chartered Bike, a subsidiary of Chartered Speed, will deploy more than 2,000 electric bikes and 200 charging stations in Mumbai over the next three to six months for various purposes.
The e-bikes, which will be powered by Adani Electricity, can be accessed by delivery partners of all e-commerce, food aggregators and delivery platforms.
The company will expand the deployment of chartered bikes in Mumbai from 50 to 2,000, along with 200 electric vehicle charging stations in a span of next three to six months.
Adani Electricity is supporting the company in providing space and power supply and Speed Bike is capitalising on using that to help delivery partners save Rs 150-200 per day with an all-electric fleet.
The partnership will provide a unique solution to delivery partners who can use these chartered bikes without a driving licence having a restricted speed of 25 km per hour.
Chartered Speed has a fleet of over 1,000 buses and operates the Ahmedabad Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) along with BRTS in Surat and Indore.
Moreover, it operates over 500 city buses in Ahmadabad, Surat and Indore, including 40 battery electric buses.
Chartered plies more than 125 premium Volvo intercity coaches for the Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation, BCLL, ASTC and AiCTSL in Assam, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.
It has 4,500 bikes in its public bike sharing operations in Surat, Ranchi, Kolkata Bhopal and Prayagraj.