Bajaj makes first move, brings back Chetak scooter in an electric variant

In doing so, Bajaj has become the first internal combustion engine two-wheeler company to launch an all-electric two-wheeler in India

Two months back, Rajiv Bajaj, owner of India’s second largest motorcycle manufacturer, was in a tussle with the government over an aggressive timeline for electrification of the two-wheeler industry. 

On Wednesday, in the presence of road transport minister Nitin Gadkari and NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant (NITI Aayog had proposed electrification of two-wheeler industry by 2023), his company launched the first electric two-wheeler from the Bajaj stable. 

Through this, it also returned to the scooter segment, which it had exited in 2009. Aptly, the electric scooter has been named Chetak, which had been a household name in the last decade. “Our future