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Sweden's electric car Zbee makes India debut, promises clean and safe mobility

Sweden's electric car Zbee makes India debut, promises clean and safe mobility

Zbee is already running successfully across Europe and Indonesia, and would be used as last mile connectivity in the CyberHub area of Gurgaon as an active toll of green vehicles in the first phase.

Goran Folkesson, Clean Motion CEO with Zbee Goran Folkesson, Clean Motion CEO with Zbee

Swedish company Clean Motion has launched its advanced electric commercial vehicle, 'Zbee' in India.

Zbee is already running successfully across Europe and Indonesia, and would be used as last mile connectivity in the CyberHub area of Gurgaon as an active toll of green vehicles in the first phase.

It would soon be marketed in Delhi, Noida, Jaipur and other smart cities. The company aims to sell over 1,000 Zbees in India by March 2017.

Says Goran Folkesson, Clean Motion CEO: "We all know that fossil fuel-run vehicles have contributed significantly in adding to the carbon footprint/ emissions in our environment. To combat this, at Clean Motion we started developing technology which is lean, clean and safe and can be a potential alternative transport solution and this led to Zbee. The rising environmental concerns in India to look at alternative solutions, and I am confident Zbee would soon become the preferred mode of transport for shorter distances."

The company plans to train women drivers for Zbee and would work with Delhi Integrated Multi-Modal Transit System Ltd and other organisations in this regard. It is expected to be a viable energy-efficient solution to the critical issues of pollution and last-mile connectivity in urban metros.

Besides, the company has entered into an arrangement with DLF to operate Zbees from various retail format in Delhi-NCR. Zbee has a fibre-reinforced plastic body, which is light as well as strong from a safety perspective. It comes with an advances lithium ion battery and a full charge allows it to be driven for up to 50 km.

Clean Motion has invested over $1 million in India so far and would be pumping in $10 million by 2017. Currently, Zbee is being assembled in India at Faridabad and the India team expects to bring down the production cost significantly by 2017.  

Meanwhile, environmental body, CSE has said that the high number of diesel vehicles in the recently concluded Auto Expo shows a scary trend of high pollution causing models hitting the market despite 2,000-cc diesel engines being banned in the NCR till March 2016. CSE claimed that as many as 27 per cent of all displayed car/SUV models in Auto Expo were in the bracket of 2,000-cc diesel engines.

 

Published on: Feb 10, 2016, 6:42 PM IST
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