Zypp Electric partners with grocery & food tech Co. for last-mile deliveries

Zypp Electric India’s leading last-mile delivery company has partnered with more than grocery, e-retail and food tech players, including BigBasket, Grofers, Modern Bazaar, Spencers and others to provide last-mile delivery services. It has deployed over 1000 trained professionals to cater to the wide-ranging needs of the segment. Zypp has developed a fleet of e-scooters that can carry a loading capacity of 200 kgs.

Zypp Electric partners with grocery

Akash Gupta, co-founder and CEO, Zypp Electric, said, “Grocery delivery is a new and an interesting segment with a specific demand of a robust fleet, time-bound delivery and heavy loads. At Zypp, we are constantly connecting with like-minded entities to further the idea of large-scale EV deployment for fleet operations throughout the country. We have created special solutions for the grocery segment.”

“Our partnership with BigBasket, Grofers, and Spencers is a huge step towards our goal. We endeavour to expand our services to other cities as well and partner with organizations, businesses, Kirana stores from all regions to take the idea of a carbon-free India forward,” he added.

It has recently announced that it plans to expand its fleet to 10,000 e-scooters in the next 12-14 months and onboard more riders that include women to meet the demand for its services.

Zypp Electric co-founder and CEO Akash Gupta said the company has onboarded 100 female riders (delivery partners), primarily in Delhi, Noida and Gurugram in a new initiative when one of its partners wanted to have some female riders.

“Then other merchants started saying they would also want (us to onboard) female riders, and so that’s one of the missions that we are taking. We would like to have a ratio of 15-20 per cent of our riders to be female as we scale up,” he told.

Zypp handles the deliveries in bigger ways, out of that the grocery deliveries is the biggest segment then comes the e-commerce and hyperlocal (food, medicine etc). It deals with around 2 lakh shipments a month and has already delivered more than 7.5 lakh shipments amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The company will have about 12,000 riders by December next year. At current it has 1,000 electric scooters and is growing quite rapidly and will expand to 10,000 in the next 12-14 months. Its business has been grown almost 4X from pre-COVID to post-COVID, both in terms of revenue and the number of shipments that they deliver.

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