Zypp Electric to onboard female riders adds more 9,000 e-scooters 

Zypp Electric is India’s leading last-mile delivery app plans to expand its fleet to 10,000 e-scooters in next 12-14 months and onboard more riders that includes women to meet the demand for its services.

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The company at present has about 1,000 electric scooters on its platform and works with 350 business-to-business (B2B) merchants to carry out their last-mile deliveries. 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.

The safety of the women riders has been ensured.”A lot of the security-related issues have been solved by technology, where we give preferential slots and routes to females. And their timing cycles are also different. We also equip them with pepper sprays and the vehicles are customised for better ride experience, and we train them well to ensure that they don’t face any challenges,” he said.

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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 next 12-14 months. Its business has been grown almost 4X pre-COVID to post-COVID, both in terms of revenue and number of shipments that they deliver. 

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