http://retail.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/food-entertainment/grocery/bigbasket-plans-to-use-electric-cars-to-deliver-products-in-delhi/50182855 BigBasket plans to use electric cars to deliver products in Delhi 15 December 2015 Vishal Dutta & Aditi Shrivastava
[image http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/photo/50182902.cms (e2o EVs) ] BigBasket is expected to start electric car delivery in NCR in three to six months, starting with a fleet of 100 electric cars. AHMEDABAD/BENGALURU: Online grocery retailer BigBasket plans to use electric cars to deliver products in Delhi and surrounding areas, and is in talks with Mahindra Reva Electric Vehicles to acquire pollution free vehicles. The Bengaluru-based startup has already deployed a prototype of Reva but an official deal is yet to be signed, company officials said.Confirming the development, BigBasket cofounder & CEO Hari Menon said, "We will first start with Delhi and then move to other cities as well." Besides being environment-friendly, deploying Reva electric cars will also help BigBasket bring down its cost of delivery significantly, Menon said. "It would reduce running cost by 30-40% after moving to electric car delivery system," he said. Currently, BigBasket uses Tata Ace [ice] delivery vehicles that run on diesel. It has a fleet of 90 plus delivery vehicles in the National Capital Region that includes places such as Gurgaon and Noida. BigBasket is expected to start electric car delivery in NCR in three to six months, starting with a fleet of 100 electric cars. Mahindra Reva declined com ment. Last week, in a bid to curb alarmingly rising air pollution levels in the National Capital, the Delhi government had decided that it would allow private vehicles with odd and even numbers to ply only on odd and even dates, respectively, on the capital's roads for 15 days starting January 1. Menon said it plans to use robotic load picking for its warehouse, thus saving cost and time for loading and unloading. [© indiatimes.com] ... http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/bigbasket-plans-to-use-electric-cars-to-deliver-products-in-delhi/articleshow/50181614.cms BigBasket plans to use electric cars to deliver products in Delhi 15 Dec, 2015 ... The Bengaluru-based startup has already deployed a prototype of Reva but an official deal is yet to be signed ... ... http://www.bigbasket.com Bigbasket - Online Grocery Store and Supermarket India. Online grocery store of Bangalore, Mysore Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Madurai, Coimbatore, Vijayawada, Ahmedabad &Nashik ... ... http://mahindrareva.com/ Mahindra Reva, E2o EVs For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-BigBasket-using-100-E2o-Delhi-in-delivery-EVs-in-3mo-s-tp4679227.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
