An energy infrastructure and EV services provider, SUN Mobility, will build 320 battery-swapping stations across India in the next few months, which makes its national network 500-strong by March next year, as per Deccan Herald.
With this expanded network, the company, founded by Chetan Maini or the man behind India’s first electric car Reva, aims to do about 30,000 swaps daily by March next year versus 11,000 currently.
The news came less than a month after the opening of a new Bengaluru factory that can make 200,000 batteries per annum. Out of the 320 new battery-swapping stations, about 200 will be in Delhi, while Bengaluru will have 80 new ones.
SUN Mobility Chief Executive Anant Badjatya
Mission Million Initiative
The company, which offers everything such as swappable batteries and battery-swapping stations for e-rickshaws, light cargo four-wheelers, and two-wheelers, aims to service 1 million electric vehicles by 2025 as part of its ‘Mission Million’ initiative.
An important part of the entire thing is our partnerships. SUN Mobility came in as an enabler of an ecosystem. My earlier journey was all about creating a car. I think here, if you want to do something at scale, it needs to create an ecosystem of partnerships.
Chetan Maini, SUN Mobility Founder
Notably, it tied up with automakers such as Hero Electric, Greaves Electric Mobility, and Piaggio; energy distributors Tata Power and Indian Oil Crp Ltd; and 25 fleet partners, including Amazon, Uber, and Zypp.
Amazon interested in more battery-swapping stations
Badjatya also said that the company currently has around 180 swapping stations across 18 cities. In the fleet segment, while SUN has ten swapping stations at Amazon warehouses in six cities, it received interest from the e-commerce company for 1600 more.
