R ARIVANANTHAM
CHENNAI, OCT 7
Zero Emission Mobility Platform (ZeMP) in association with Pegasus Green Mobility (Powered by Parveen Travels Pvt Ltd) launched E-Mobility services in Chennai on Wednesday.
Dr J Radhakrishnan, Principal Secretary to the Government of Tamil Nadu, Co-operation, Food and Consumer Protection Department officially launched the services in the presence of Vikash Sharda and Hitesh Hiran, Co-founders of Greenifit, Mohammed Afsal, CMD, Parveen Travels and other last-mile service partners (food delivery partners Zomato etc).
The E-Mobility services has been launched with a moto to bring down the carbon emission footprint and electrification of last mile delivery fleet for e-Commerce and food delivery companies.
- It is expected to go a great way in giving fillip to consumers by making a beginning with the e-merchandise firms and their delivery persons benefitting from this subscription-based approach: Dr Radhakrishnan, Principal Secretary to the Government of Tamil Nadu, Co-operation, Food and Consumer Protection Department
- We are the leader in Hero Electric vehicles since 2007 sold around 1 lakh E-Scooters last year and plans hike this number to 3 lakh units during the current financial year: Arbab Shraf, National Head, (B2B) Hero Electric
ZeMP is the part of umbrella platform – Greenifit which is under the ambit of Spoctech Green Ventures Pvt. Ltd. Parveen Travels Pvt Ltd is one of the leading transport operators in South India. ZeMP has associated with various Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) such as Hero Electric, BGauss, ETrio, etc. for deploying electric two wheelers and electric three wheelers (L5 Cargo), said Hitesh Hiran, Co-founders of Greenifit.
Hitesh said, “The entire World is facing severe climate crisis due to global warming today. The data shows that about 25% of Green House Gas Emission is due to transport sector and the governments globally are pushing the adoption of electric vehicle to make transport much cleaner and greener. Government of India has brought FAME Scheme for faster adoption of EV in India. The EV Policy of Tamil Nadu also aims to create robust charging infrastructure and make Tamil Nadu a preferred destination for EV. With the rapid increase in online deliveries, the demand for 2W for last mile delivery has increased. While on one hand it is providing employment to many people in last mile deliveries, one the other hand, it is emitting significant amount of carbon footprints.”
To keep these above in view, the ZeMP in association with Pegasus Green Mobility has vision to deploy more than 5,000 electric two wheelers in Chennai over the next two years which will help reduce significant carbon emission in last mile delivery segments, said Vikash Sharda, Co-founder of Greenifit.
With electric mobility as the prime focus area of the Government, the faster adoption of EVs is dependent on availability of finance. With India registering more than 10 lakh EVs in past 2-3 years, there is a dearth of financing resources for buying electric two wheelers for last-mile deliveries. ZeMP as an aggregator platform will help last mile deliveries partners to get easy subscription model to adopt electric two wheelers at convenience.
Launching the E-Mobility Services Dr Radhakrishnan said, “Nice to be part of the launch of subscription-based e-bike mobility services project. This has been undertaken by Greenifit and a number of partner organizations such as Parveen Travels, Hero Electric, Bguass, Etrio and also Institute of Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) as knowledge partner. It is expected to go a great way in giving fillip to consumers by making a beginning with the e-merchandise firms and their delivery persons benefitting from this subscription-based approach. This service is being provided through the ZeMP (Zero Emission Mobility Platform) platform.”
Vikash Sharda and Hitesh Hiran, Co-founders of Greenifit, informed that “ZeMP is being launched in Chennai, Tamil Nadu today with our OEM partners, and soon it will be rolled out to major cities across the country. Under ZeMP, we would be deploying charging and battery swapping infrastructure in these cities to decarbonize urban mobility in a significant manner.”
Mohammed Afzal, Chairman and Managing Director of Parveen Travels, said, “Since 2013 we have started working towards green mobility by planting saplings for each of the passengers travelling in our buses. We started electric mobility services through Pegasus Green Mobility, and we have partnered with Greenifit to enable electrification of last mile delivery in the state’’.
Arbab Shraf, National Head, (B2B) Hero Electric told navjeevanexpress.com, “We are the leader in Electric vehicles since 2007 sold around 1 lakh E-Scooters last year and plans hike this number to 3 lakh units during the current financial year. We are partnering with ZeMP to provide customized Blacknix from Hero Electric bikes for last-mile delivery for food delivery and grocery delivery partners has many first-in-kind of facilities such as larger space in the front side as well as in the back seat, GPS facility to track the vehicle by the operators and theft alert signal and two batteries to operate the vehicle up to 120 km per day. The bike has two chargers to charge the batteries simultaneously.’’
He also said that Hero Electric has a warehouse at Hosur, the industrial hub of Tamil Nadu to supply its vehicles all across the southern states, he said.
R Siva Raman, Operations Manager, Zomato and other dignitaries were also present.
