Swappable Batteries Motorcycle Consortium aims to broaden the use of light EVs, such as scooters, mopeds and motorcycles. It would support the sustainable management of batteries in light EVs.

The first model is expected to hit the market in 2022. Tork Motors meets the subsidy requirements of the (FAME-II) scheme and will produce electric two-wheelers (e-2Ws) and electric three-wheelers (e-3Ws).

With Chinese companies entering India due to emergence of electric vehicles (EVs) as India combats the challenge of climate change, emissions and aims to improve its Carbon Footprint; it brings new technology, experience and may help to pace up eMobility campaign of the Government of India.

In a bid to lay down the groundwork for their upcoming launch, Tork Motors, the Pune-based electric vehicle manufacturer, has installed their first unit of their EV fast-charging station at Cafe Peter’s Bund Garden Road outlet in Pune, Maharashtra.

The new EV charging station is in line with the government’s vision to ensure seamless and faster adoption of electric vehicles and is the first of many that the company plans to install in the coming years.

Even while motorcycle manufact-urers in India and elsewhere are going all out to make the bikes more powerful, more stylish, and even more brutish but still dependent on petrol, there is a smaller world within that big league where teams are working on producing electric motorcycles that will ultimately vie for the same pie.

With fuel prices showing no signs of reduction, and the pressure to keep the costs down, electric two wheelers are set to have a go

With fuel prices showing no signs of reduction, and the pressure to keep the costs down, electric two wheelers are set to have a go

New launches at the commuter end as well as the lifestyle end will ensure that two wheelers continue to grow strongly in 2013