Bharat Petroleum To Host Bounce Infinity Battery Swapping Network At Fuel Stations

As per the terms of the partnership, Bounce Infinity will set up battery swapping stations at Bharat Petroleum's fuel stations across the country in a phased manner. The partnership will first be seen in the nation's tech capital Bangalore before it expands other major metro stations in a phased manner.

Bounce Infinity plans to setup 3000 battery swapping stations in 10 cities across India and the new partnership with Bharat Petroleum will help increase the availability and visibility of these swapping stations. Bharat Petroleum is the biggest name to have joined up with Bounce Infinity to date with the EV company already having announced similar partnerships with Greaves Electric and BattRE for battery swapping stations.

Speaking about the partnership with Bharat Petroleum, Vivekananda Hallakere, Co-Founder & CEO, Bounce, said, "Bounce Infinity has been strategically partnering with prominent industry players to revolutionize the battery swapping scenario. This partnership reiterates our commitment towards a cleaner and pollution-free country by making our network accessible to consumers at the same scale and convenience as refuelling. We look forward to a long-lasting partnership between Bounce Infinity and BPCL".

Commenting on Bharat Petroleum's new partnership with Bounce Infinity for battery swapping stations, P.S. Ravi, Executive Director In-Charge (Retail), BPCL, said,"BPCL has always been at the forefront of providing all forms of energy solutions for personal and commercial mobility to our customers. As we pace ourselves for an exciting phase of energy transition towards clean energy, we are delighted to partner with Bounce Infinity, a leading start up offering innovative and state-of-the art smart battery swapping solutions for 2-wheeler and 3-wheeler EV customers.

India's personal mobility is primarily driven by two-wheelers who form the largest part of our valued customer base and the two-wheeler segment has been the early adopters of electric two wheelers. We are privileged to service over 10 million 2/3-wheeler customers every day in our country-wide network and we look forward to offering our esteemed customers, an efficient battery swapping experience through our partnership with Bounce Infinity especially in the urban markets where quick turnaround of vehicles is a primary customer need for personal mobility, freight and shared mobility segments. Battery swapping with pre-charged batteries from Bounce Infinity will significantly reduce the vehicle downtime adding customer convenience and reducing range anxiety. The interoperability feature offered by Bounce Infinity will help us to serve a larger spread of EV customers and will help in the growth of this important battery swapping segment in the EV space in the country.

This partnership focussed on urban markets complements BPCL's overall EV charging roadmap of setting up fast charging corridors across major highways in the country inter-connecting major cities and economic centres and will have a network of 7000 conveniently located fast charging stations along with a host of customer amenities in the country in the next 2-3 years."

Bounce Infinity claims that its current battery swapping network which has been setup over the past 11 months has overseen over 1.2 million battery swaps. These million plus swaps claims Bounce account for over 49 million plus kilometres ridden/driven by electric vehicles.

Thoughts On Bounce Infinity's Partnership With Bharat Petroleum

With its new partnership with Bharat Petroleum, Bounce Infinity has found a big time partner to help it rapidly expand its battery swapping network. The new partnership will help Bounce meet its goal of setting up battery swapping stations for over a million customers as it looks to ramp up electric mobility in India.