Bajaj Auto India has resumed bookings for the Chetak electric scooter in the Indian market. The company had earlier stalled the bookings, owing to the nationwide lockdown due to Coronavirus pandemic. Bajaj Chetak electric scooter can be booked online with deliveries expected to begin shortly in Pune and Bengaluru, where it is on sale currently. The nationwide lockdown was announced on March 23 by the Indian government and since then, identical to every other automaker, Bajaj too had to shut down its factory and hence, it stopped taking bookings for the Chetak ES.
Bajaj Chetak electric deliveries were expected to start in full swing from March onwards but only a few handful customers could get it. However, as on June 1, 2020, the lockdown was lifted in major parts of India except a few containment zones, the company restarted its operations and production. Bajaj will give priority to the impending orders in Pune and Bengaluru and then focus on the new orders. The lockdown also delayed the company's plans to introduce the Chetak electric scooter in other cities of the country by several months. Bajaj has already made it very clear that before launching Chetak in a new city, it will carry out customer feedback study and analyse it while also giving equal importance to charging infrastructure and government subsidy on purchase of EV.
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Bajaj Chetak Electric scooter was launched in January this year in two trim levels: Urbane and Premium. The former is available in two colors - Citrus Rush and Cyber White - at a sticker price of Rs 1 Lakh while the latter is offered in four paint schemes - Velutto Rosso, Indigo Metallic, Hazelnut and Brooklyn Black - at an introductory price of Rs 1.15 Lakhs (Both the prices are Ex. Showroom Pune and Bengaluru). The scooter is powered by a 3 kWH battery which provides it a range of 95 kilometers in Eco mode and 85 kilometers in Sports mode. It takes a total of 5 hours to fully charge it while 25 percent charging can be achieved in just one hour. The scooter has a torque output of 16Nm.
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Source - Drivespark