Bounce to train 100,000 women to ride EV scooters over the next two years

Bounce, the Bengaluru head-quartered scooter rental startup, will practice at the least 100,000 girls throughout Indian cities and cities over the following two years to function electrical two-wheelers. The bike sharing startup hopes that the initiative will empower girls who want to take up gig work, whereas additionally it’ll assist to extend the utility of its rental automobiles fleet with every car at the moment protecting nearly 40 kilometres or 4 hours a day.

Bounce CEO and cofounder Vivekananda Hallekere mentioned the corporate has already begun coaching a couple of tons of of ladies in Bengaluru and it’ll develop the coaching to different cities within the coming months. “Now we have began this initiative to coach girls who wish to pursue a component time job for a couple of hours a day. We can even help them in getting their driving licences and be sure that they get an acceptable job both as bike taxi drivers or as gig staff,” he instructed ET.

The corporate will present coaching freed from price, however the girls who be part of Bounce platform later for a job should shell about Rs 3-4 per kilometer as per the corporate’s enterprise mannequin. The agency plans to coach about 6,000 girls each month.

With Bounce having arrange battery swapping stations in 200 mom-and-pop shops in Bengaluru, girls riders can swap charged batteries in any of those centres hassle-free, Hallekere mentioned.

By bringing girls riders on board, the two-wheeler rental agency is hoping to extend the utility of its EV fleet by about 60 to 100 kilometres per car a day. “With unit economic system taking part in an important function in our enterprise mannequin, we wish e-scooters to run for longer hours. We’ll encourage girls and faculty going college students to make use of the platform and earn with out actually having to speculate on shopping for a car,” he mentioned.

The corporate is in talks with the Karnataka authorities to get an enormous floor to coach girls and likewise present a system to combine issuing of license quickly after the coaching.

Bounce has began changing its petrol-driven two-wheeler car fleet with electrical scooters. Hallekere lately introduced the corporate’s tie up with Chara to design motors for the brand new fleet of EVs that shall be made in-house.