At a Chennai event, SUN Mobility demonstrated their modular battery-swapping technology for heavy electric vehicles (HEVs). More than 100 private bus operators and operator associations from Tamil Nadu attended the program.
To encourage the use of EVs in the heavy vehicle market, SUN Mobility inked memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with a number of local bus operators during the event. The company’s products, a cost-benefit analysis, and the possibility of switching from diesel-powered buses to battery-swapped electric buses with a comparable cost structure and refueling experience were all covered at the workshop.
At Prawaas 4.0, an international conference hosted by the Bus & Car Operators Confederation of India (BOCI), SUN Mobility and bus maker Veera Vahana recently presented a fully integrated mobility solution for electrifying bus and truck fleets. In order to lower emissions, improve air quality, and increase operational efficiency, the event brought attention to the necessity of electrifying commercial fleets, especially heavy vehicles. More than 10,000 requests for electric buses were made as a result of the displayed technology.
Bus operators have a number of difficulties, including high upfront prices, few financing alternatives, long charge times, and the requirement for a substantial infrastructure for charging, which are addressed by the modular battery-swapping technology. The method is intended to lower the initial cost of electric buses by 40%, bringing them on level with conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) buses, according to Ashok Agarwal, CEO-HEV at SUN Mobility. It also boosts bus utilization by decreasing downtime through a swapping procedure that takes less than three minutes, and it reduces operating costs by up to 20%.
