AMPERE MAGNUS NEO

The budget offering from Ampere gets a bigger battery and a longer range

- ABHISHEK PANDEY

The Indian electric scooter market has grown tremendously over the past half decade. The two-wheeler sphere has seen many new startups and legacy manufacturers come up with new electric scooters and motorcycles, across price brackets. Ampere, owned by Greaves Electric Mobility, has been quite active on the front too, and has launched a range of scooters over the past couple of years particularly. Its Magnus has just received an update in the form of the Magnus Neo, which replaces the erstwhile Magnus EX and promises to offer longer range and more features at a relatively affordable price. We spent some time with the new scooter to assess these claims.

Family scooters are a fairly simple setup usually, with their focus being more towards utility than anything else. And with that said, the Magnus Neo carries a conventional scooter look. It gets an LED headlamp integrated into the handlebar cowl, while the dual-tone front apron houses the turn indicators. The Magnus Neo uses a halogen tail lamp at the rear, coupled with LED indicators, making for a simple-looking rear end.