EASY ACCESS

The Ather 450S is a more affordable variant of the popular electric scooter that has been launched to appeal to a wider audience. We got to swing a leg over it and here is our first impression

- Azaman Chothia

WITH THE REDUCTION in Fame II subsidies, electric scooters have become an expensive proposition. To bridge this gap and offer a product that is accessible to more customers, Ather has launched the 450S. The brand has always stayed true to its design language and the S variant is no exception. It gets a smaller 2.9kWh battery pack which gives it an IDC range of 115 kilometres. This translates into a realworld mileage of between 80 and 100 kilometres. From all the data collected by Ather, it realized that the average customer covers approximately 28 km per day; so an electric scooter that offers this kind of range would easily meet that requirement. This EV has a claimed 0-40 km/h acceleration time of 3.9 seconds and the S variant has a top speed of 90 km/h.