Bajaj Chetak

After launching the Chetak electric scooter in January 2020 in India, Bajaj applied for a design patent in Europe and now the company has been awarded the same.

Bajaj Auto’s plan to take the Chetak electric scooter to other Indian cities has been delayed because of the effects of the COVID-19.

Bajaj Auto has stopped the production of Chetak understandably in the current lockdown situation, but now reports suggest that the deliveries of Chetak have been delayed till September quarter (July – September).

Bajaj became the first major manufacturer in India to launch an electric scooter by resurrecting Chetak brand, and customer deliveries have begun this month. Bajaj made its first electric scooter available to Pune and Bangalore to start with.

Right on the heels of the Chetak launch, Bajaj Auto is working on new Chetak models and the company has already got the prototypes ready. The expansion of the Chetak line-up has been confirmed by Rakesh Sharma, Executive Director, Bajaj Auto.

Bajaj Auto will study the customer reaction and experience in Pune and Bengaluru for Chetak before launching it in other cities, as stated by Rakesh Sharma, Director – Bajaj Auto.

While Bajaj Chetak been launched amid much fanfare, the company will start deliveries of the Chetak Urbane variant only from May 2020, reports BikeDekho. The Chetak Premium variant though will start to be delivered from February 2020.

After the hot launch of its Chetak Electric, the biker community in India expected that Bajaj would be taking its battery and motor into the frame of a Pulsar or an Avenger.