How did Ather succeed in establishing its proprietary charging connector as the national standard for two-wheelers?
Replied byTarun Mehta
Co-Founder & CEO at Ather Energy
Niche: Production
Revenue: Approx. USD 22 Million/month
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Started: 2013
Rather than keeping our fast-charging architecture proprietary, we open-sourced the design and offered it royalty-free to the entire industry. We collaborated with the Bureau of Indian Standards to formalize our connector as the Light Electric Combined Charging System (LECCS), creating a unified national charging standard and proving that Indian engineering can define global technical benchmarks.
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