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“The way we implemented and the way Ola implemented I think Ola's same capability would last a much shorter time. So if you engage this hill hole feature on a steep slope after a minute or so, the motor would be like, okay, now I can't support this. It'll start…”

“Volumes, they are ahead, but volumes will catch up in the next three, four years. But in terms of just sheer technology, and product quality, and product the feature list. No, I'm not just speaking for Aether. I'm just, I'm speaking actually about the entire e…”

“So my belief for the last several years has been electric scooters will decimate the Commuter entry motorcycle market in India over the next 10 years. What will be left as motorcycles is the premium and the high performance category, one 8200 cc and beyond, wh…”

“I think tier one daily usage is 31 kilometers, tier two is like, 32, tier three is like, 29. There is no meaningful difference of usage, daily usage. There is no meaningful difference of buying patterns. Tier one, tier two, tier three.”

“Charging standard has become the national standard.”

“The challenge of setting up cell manufacturing in India for a while now has been demanding. And the minimum investment required is pretty high. Like if you're not putting, if you're not bringing four, 5000 crores to the table, practically, it'll be very diffic…”

“So for example, our oldest battery packs are now five years in the field. And we have, they are still at 90% plus health, which means we are now internally starting to project eight to 10 year battery life. We know in the industry that I think most of our comp…”

“Yes, that's why I said it's the world's largest R&D for two wheelers, electric two wheelers.”

“Every company who's talked about cracking subscription, quickly, quietly became a financing company. Everybody.”

“Long term, I do think that electric vehicles are not going to make money on servicing. They just can't. And as quality improves for each of, each one of us, their number will drop even further. I think long-term electric vehicles will have to make money on som…”

“Indranagar on many months beats Apple global averages quite, quite comfortably. I think on a regular month, I think it also beats, but on a good month, festive months, I think it's like double that of Apple global average.”

“In scooters at least, our math was, it is. It is 40% less emission than a petrol scooter. You're at least reducing emission to 40%. Even if the grid does not become greener at all.”

“Actually in two wheelers, it's the largest fast charging network in the country.”

“We'll go from 200 touch points to a thousand touch points in the next two and a half years. At which point you've crossed oil and field scale already.”

“Most cell manufacturing companies, the really enormous ones, like LG Chem, Panasonic, all these guys, even in the best times that they made cells and sold cells, had like crazy ability to sell price at any point. They can sell at any price, like last year basi…”

“So you set up recycling. I think it is such a stable business. It's two fifty million vehicles going to go to three fifty million vehicles and annually out of that three, thirty million is going to come back. And 1015 years later, a very large chunk of that wi…”

“This was the world's first aluminum frame, bolted aluminum frame on a scooter in production. This was the first scooter anywhere in the world to deploy a touchscreen dashboard, and the first one to have Google Maps.”

“Bullet. It's a famous product. Yeah, we all know about it. It does, I think, 14,000 units a month. Pan India. Wow. We do 14,000 today.”

“For example, right now we are the only player where we don't put any restriction on fast charging. So we tell our customers, if you want to fast charge practically every day, be my guest, right?”

“Yeah, but none of us in India does liquid cooling for a two-wheeler. Crazy cost structure. Doesn't make sense today.”

“I'm almost certain a carbon tax is headed our way in India.”

“When we launched in 2018, Ather four 50 was the fastest accelerating scooter ever produced in the country. I mean, all scooters, all petrol scooters included.”

“So, last year, I think about six, seven lakh vehicles were sold, ah, electric. us, Ola, TVS were about, I think, 50% of it. I think we did one lakh, I think Ola did 1.5 lakhs, and TVS did, again, just under a lakh. So about three, three and a half lakh betwee…”

“In India, the market leader, In two wheelers. Always gets to 50% plus market share. Splendor. Dominating market share. More than 50%. Activa. Winner. 55% market share. Pulsar. Winner. In the commuter sports category. I think more than 50% market share. Royal E…”

“FI. 20, 21 was 75 crores. FI. 21, 22 was 410 crores. And 20 to 23 was 1800.”

“In fact, I think electrification, electric vehicles, because of the amount of lead India has, Is going to create one of the first waves of genuine platform builders on hardware in India after a very long time.”

“That, two hundred and fifty million two-wheelers on Indian roads, this number I think will become close to about four hundred million by the end of this decade, including exits of old vehicles.”

“The first patent we filed at Aether was a swappable battery pack.”

“Just the material alone in a typical four kilowatt battery pack is about 240 dollars today. About 60 dollars a kilowatt. This is the raw material inside.”

“Batteries, I can't give the exact numbers, but in percentage, generally about 35% is a good estimate.”

“Every customer that we used to meet would love electric. They believed this was the future. They were big supporters, believers, everything. Every single one of them hated the EV that they bought.”

“The market of one 80 cc bikes and beyond in India is I think about six percent of the Indian doula market and about 10% of the bike market. 90% of the bike market in India is basically splendor. 9080, 90%.”

“There have been so many hardware startups that have come out of Aether. There's appliance in, in cooking. There is Exponent Energy. There is another one in the battery side. I'm blanking on the name right now. There are at least like seven, eight startups that…”