Maini: Sun Mobility has over 15,000 vehicles in its Mobility-as-a-Service fleet
Chetan Maini · Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath · Dec 10, 2023 · at 1:27:22
Sun Mobility co-founder Chetan Maini explains the commercial scale of their MaaS model powering logistics for Indian e-commerce delivery partners.
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“So today we maybe have only on mobility service, we have a little over 15,000 vehicles with fleet providers who in turn are using them to deliver to Amazons and Flipkarts and everyone else, right? We also have infrastructure at Amazon sites.”
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