SUN Mobility and Zypp Electric to Revolutionize Urban Last-Mile Delivery with 10,000 Electric Vehicles Across India – EQ Mag Pro
~ SUN Mobility’s SWAP Points first to integrate battery swapping for both electric two and three-wheelers~
Bengaluru, September 08, 2021: SUN Mobility, the leading provider of energy infrastructure and services for electric vehicles (EVs), has partnered with Zypp Electric, one of India’s leading EV logistics companies to revolutionize urban last-mile delivery.
This is the first partnership under the recently announced SUN Mobility’s Mobility as a Service (MaaS) offering. Together, the companies have already deployed electric three-wheeler cargo vehicles in Delhi/NCR and plans to expand to ten other cities soon. The partnership aims to deploy 10,000 EVs across various platforms over the next few years.
This partnership will provide Zypp with a state-of-the-art electric mobility solution comprising leading cargo vehicle models integrated with smart batteries and access to a wide network of SWAP POINTS™. This offering comes with a pay-per-use plan bundled with unlimited battery swaps. Zypp can scale up its fleet operations in an asset-light manner without having to worry about battery and charging infrastructure.
SUN Mobility’s industry-leading offering gives it an edge with the lowest cost and highest fleet uptime via a 2-minute swap. The interoperability of battery swapping infrastructure across electric vehicles will empower Zypp with flexibility of vehicle models across the fleet using common battery swapping infrastructure. The telematics data and analytics from these connected batteries brings in operations efficiency. Zypp plans to deploy these vehicles across various applications in retail, eCommerce, and groceries delivery.
Speaking on the partnership, Akash Gupta, Co-founder & CEO, Zypp Electric, said, “In our pursuit to serve the fast-growing last-mile delivery segment we are delighted to have partnered with SUN Mobility under their MaaS model.
This has enabled us to rapidly electrify and deploy our fleet of vehicles with benefits like an unlimited number of Kilometers on road, no downtime for charging, no high upfront capital and other issues about maintenance and warranties. Zypp and SUN Mobility share some great synergies and we are looking forward to scaling this partnership with EVs in various models across the country.”
Chetan Maini, Co-Founder and Chairman of SUN Mobility, said, “With Zypp we are on the verge of transforming urban last-mile delivery. Our smart mobility solution enables various types of electric vehicles to be commercially deployed by using a common energy infrastructure.
EVs in last-mile delivery are the fastest-growing segment with over 10% penetration (monthly sales) in the three-wheeler cargo segment. Our comprehensive MaaS offering can enable fleet operators to adapt e-mobility in an accelerated manner. We aim to deploy 10,000 EVs with Zypp on our platform across the country.”
SUN Mobility aims to onboard over a million vehicles by 2025 accelerated through its MaaS offering. It has already commenced solution deployment in eCommerce and goods delivery segments across major cities such as Delhi NCR, Bangalore, and Chandigarh and plans to further expand to other cities across the country. The company has onboarded hundreds of such vehicles across multiple fleet operators and has a robust order book to deploy thousands more.
About Zypp:
Zypp Electric is India’s leading last-mile delivery EV startup, founded in 2017 with a mission to make India carbon-free by using electric scooters. Zypp Electric tried and tested some good business models to make their journey to the great business model of making carbon-free last-mile delivery for local merchants to e-commerce giants.
The company currently delivers groceries, medicines, food, packages from point A to point B through their fully automated IoT and AI-enabled scooters which are low on maintenance and high on performance. The tech tracks batteries that can be replaced at Zypp swapping stations which are installed at key touch-points. Eco-friendly deliveries reduce the carbon footprint and help to make the city pollution-free. Currently, it has over 1500+ Zypp Pilots (delivery executives) working towards this mission.
About SUN Mobility:
SUN Mobility is a global leader in providing energy mobility solutions and services to the transportation sector enabling electric vehicles to be refuelled in a faster, cheaper, and more convenient way; thereby, making mass migration to a sustainable, pollution-free future possible.
Founded in 2017, it is a joint venture between SUN Group and Maini Group, pioneers in areas of electric mobility and clean energy. The company is led by Chetan Maini, previously founder of Reva now Mahindra Electric, and Uday Khemka, Vice Chairman of SUN Group, two of India’s leaders in the new energy economy.
The organization is working with fleet operators, shared mobility providers, cities and automotive OEMs across all platforms including 2/3 wheelers and buses to challenge the status quo with an economical, scalable, and smarter way forward. The company has successfully deployed 65 Swap Points™ in 14 cities in India, resulting in 404K rides and powering 6 million kms in the country.
