An electric scooter typically takes up to 5 hours to fully charge. Ergon Labs' Ashwin hopes to reduce the charging time to just one hour, all without the use of any fast-charging infrastructure. Ergon chargers are built into the scooter and work with our regular 15 ampere socket that we use at home. Ashwin believes that his technology will make EV scooters more affordable because quick and easy charging will reduce range anxiety and battery size.
Ashwin studied mechanical engineering at NITK Surathkal, then he worked at Rimac Automobili in Croatia where he was part of the team that built the fastest electric car in the world. He returned to India in 2019. and that’s when ergon was born. We cover the following:
1. How Ashvin founded Ergon chargers
2. Motivations for OEMs to integrate Ergon chargers with their scooters
3. Use cases for fast charging solutions for electric scooters
4. Battery swapping and fast charging
5. Can electric scooters be made cheaper, by reducing the battery size and enabling easy fast charging