Bengaluru-based SUN Mobility on Thursday announced its new service offering – an integrated Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) offering that provides customers an all-in bundled solution comprising electric vehicles with the flexibility of an unlimited swap plan for the duration of the contract, the company said in a press release.
With this innovative MaaS offering, SUN Mobility aims to on-board over a million vehicles by 2025 to its battery swapping platform. It has already commenced MaaS deployment for the goods delivery segment in major cities such as Delhi NCR, Bangalore and Chandigarh and plans to soon expand to other cities across the country.
The company has on-boarded hundreds of such vehicles across multiple fleet operators and has a robust order book to deploy thousands more.
Chetan Maini, Co-Founder and Chairman, SUN Mobility said with the MaaS model’s bundled offering, the company will enable an asset-light business for fleet operators and aggregators. “As there is a growing focus on the goods delivery segment, an integrated model like this and a well-developed network of Swap Points will create a tangible impact on the e-commerce industry,” he said.
“The MaaS model is a key step forward towards our multi-pronged stakeholder collaboration approach to provide a robust and supportive infrastructure that will cater to the new mobility paradigm, making India a global differentiator and leading this mobility transformation,” he added.
To further broaden the network of battery swapping infrastructure and make swapping accessible to customers at the same scale and ease as conventional refuelling, SUN Mobility will be expanding its footprint by setting up over 500 Swap Points – the company’s battery swapping stations – by end-2022.
Currently, with 65 Swap Points across 14 cities in India, SUN Mobility has powered over 400,000 rides and over six million km in the country, pioneering the roadmap for battery swapping infrastructure, it said in the release.