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Home India News Entertainment. With a shorter trip length than autos, that are able to carry passengers up to 15km at higher speeds, e-rickshaws serve a unique and well-established market niche. A small group of drivers enjoying a break from the traffic explain that an increasing number of start-ups are encouraging the uptake of e-rickshaws by renting vehicles for as low as 15 rupees 16p per day.
There are more than 1. I meet SK Mahapatra at the charging space he manages for the company SmartE, where tens of modern three-wheelers are parked in line. They will hit the road once fully charged, which takes four to five hours from empty. SmartE loans e-rickshaws for around rupees a day and the driver keeps whatever he makes on top of that.
Mahapatra says that the current model is working well and the charging point now caters to vehicles, having started with just Entrepreneurs in India are at work to change that.
Rosemary Pierce-Messick is the executive director of the Bangalore-based Three Wheels United, a social enterprise that provides loans to drivers who want to purchase their own vehicle. Most drivers just rent their autos for a few hours a day, she says, but if they owned their own auto they could work for longer.
Another challenge is that e-rickshaws take a long time to recharge. Charging an electric rickshaw from a flat battery can take hours, but swapping batteries is a way to cut down wait time for drivers Credit: Lou Del Bello. With this system, users only rent the battery and replace it with a full one when they run out of charge.
This way, they save on high battery costs and on charging times, because swapping takes only a couple of minutes. While the system still needs a supporting infrastructure, the same way conventional electric models need a network of charging points, one swapping station can cater for more than vehicles in one day.
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