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Electric scooters have the highest battery replacement costs.
Insuring electric two-wheelers is also expensive.
40% of the cost of the scooter is spent on the battery.
New Delhi. People buy electric scooters because they believe that driving them would reduce gas costs. In fact, the cost of running an electric scooter is less than running a gas bike. Although you may find an electric scooter expensive at first, driving it every day can save you thousands every month. Since the electricity tariff is lower than the petrol cost, the electric scooter can be operated at a very low cost.
However, there is another side to the electric scooter that people don’t think much about and later find buying an electric scooter expensive. In fact, the running costs and maintenance of electric scooters are lower, but when you need to change the battery, electric scooters are an expensive proposition.
Understand the price difference between electric and petrol two-wheelers like this one
You have to pay 40% more to buy an electric scooter. A petrol bike or scooter with good mileage is easy to find in the market for 70,000 to 80,000 rupees. On the other hand, the price of an electric scooter with a good range is between 1.30 and 1.50 lakh. As for the price, the electric scooter is almost 50,000 rupees more expensive than a bicycle. In India, petrol costs about 100 rupees per liter. For 50,000 rupees you can fill up 500 liters of petrol, which means that if the mileage of the bike is 50 km per liter, you can ride the bike 25,000 km with this amount of money.
Traveling this distance on an electric scooter will definitely cost you an electricity bill of 2,500-3,000 rupees. But the matter is not only here. You are not told the biggest cost of an electric scooter.
The game starts here
The problems with electric scooters start when your scooter has been ridden well. If the scooter is too old, the battery will start to discharge quickly. In fact, the battery also has a lifespan after which it starts to deteriorate. If the battery is too old, it will no longer charge and will be exhausted after a short ride. The battery life of an electric scooter is 4-5 years.
Currently, the cost of electric scooter batteries is more than 40 percent of the cost of the scooter for most companies. It happens. That means if the scooter costs 1.50 lakh rupees, you will have to spend more than 60,000 rupees for the new battery. For example, the battery price of the Ola S1 Pro electric scooter is around 87,000 rupees while the price of the scooter is around 1.40 lakh rupees ex showroom. Most people find it expensive to spend that much money at once.
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FIRST RELEASED : Jul 19, 2023 3:03 PM IST
