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Honda Motorcycle And Scooter India testing new e-scooter
Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) is the second-largest two-wheeler brand by volume in India is going to start testing an e-scooter. It will test an electric two-wheeler on Indian roads.
HMSI has time and again maintained that there is no plan to develop electric two-wheelers but now its latest development seems to indicate that the Honda will now test to develop an electric two-wheeler. However, it has not confirmed a timeline or if an electric scooter will be developed and launched in India.
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Yadvinder Singh Guleria, Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing, HMSI, said, “We are bringing one of our electric scooters to India which will be basically used for the study. We will be doing a market survey and feasibility survey with this model and decide on the roadmap of future EVs of Honda in India. It’s very difficult to set the next future line-up but the survey will be starting in the next three to four months.”
However, it has not revealed any plans to launch an electric scooter in India yet as the EV industry is in a developing stage. “We see that there is an effort by the Indian two-wheeler makers as well as the Society Of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) and certain talks are there. But there are other challenges as well in terms of the EV infrastructure, in terms of charging infrastructure, the real performance of the vehicle and the range of the vehicle. So, these are the challenges, in the long run, the industry really will have to tackle,” Guleria added.
Related: TVS iQube, Bajaj Electric Chetak & Ather 450X e-scooters comparison
Honda has not yet shared details about the scooter that will be tested in India. It will depend on the performance of the vehicle on the road and how well the industry can deal with the challenges. But the many big players are going electric and Honda also will definitely don’t want to left out.
As if we see TVS Motor Company has already launched the iQube electric scooter and Bajaj Auto has brought back its legendary Chetak as the company’s electric scooter. Hero MotoCorp also planning to launch the eMaestro. We hope that Honda too will join the electric race.
If Honda brings its electric scooter in India it will be a great revolution in the EV industry and it will compete with the TVS’s iQube electric scooter, Bajaj’s Chetak electric, Ather’s 450 and Hero MotoCorp’s eMaestro. India will have some great options to buy an electric scooter from these big brands in the coming days.
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