Ather has launched the Konarc with a brand-new EL platform at costs beginning as little as Rs 99,999. This makes the scooter an apparent rival to the TVS Orbiter, which was revealed final 12 months to focus on the city scooter market. For the reason that Ather Konarc’s entry-level variant isn’t due for launch till late subsequent 12 months, let’s see how the Konarc S 125, accessible later this month, compares to the TVS Orbiter V2.
Beginning with the motor, the TVS Orbiter falls wanting the Ather by way of peak energy. TVS has not talked about a peak torque output for the Orbiter. Nevertheless, the Orbiter bounces again with the next battery capability and vary, in addition to a faster 0-80 cost time with a sooner 650W bundled charger.
That mentioned, each scooters supply optionally available {hardware} to hurry up charging instances. The Ather Konarc comes with a built-in 450W charger as commonplace, and it may be bundled with an exterior 450W charger for a sooner 900W whole charging velocity, reducing the time all the way down to 2 hours and 25 minutes. The Orbiter additionally presents a sooner 950W charger as an add-on accent, nevertheless it takes an extended 2 hours and 38 minutes to get to 80 % from nil.
Ather Konarc S 125 vs TVS Orbiter V2: Dimensions and underpinnings
Orbiter is extra accessible
The Orbiter begins robust with a bonus in two vital areas for a sensible scooter: seat top and floor clearance. The Konarc can also be the heavier scooter, with a 14.5kg increased kerb weight than the Orbiter. TVS hasn’t shared the wheelbase determine for the Orbiter.
Ather Konarc S 125 vs TVS Orbiter V2: Brakes, tyres and suspension
Konarc has the higher experience bundle
The {hardware} bundle is the place the Konarc positive factors vital floor. It will get a entrance disc brake in comparison with the Orbiter’s drum brake, together with wider entrance and rear tyres. Suspension setups are extra evenly matched between the 2, though the real-world expertise might tip the scales in direction of one.
Ather Konarc S 125 vs TVS Orbiter V2: Options
TVS stays in (shocking) lockstep
Ather has reserved many of the headlining new options, such because the TFT instrument cluster, auto (boot) pop, good key, and so forth, for the Z line. The Konarc S will get a DeepView LCD instrument cluster and comes with AirWalk, which takes the motor’s help to make manually shifting the scooter simpler. Contemplating Ather’s tech-savviness, that is unsurprising. Another tech-powered options embrace turn-by-turn navigation, AutoHold (hill maintain), Car FallSafe, TrueRange, and Discover my Scooter, amongst others. The catch, nevertheless, is that each one of them require you to pay for Ather StackPro, a one-time Rs 16,000 add-on to the Konarc S 125’s ex-showroom worth.
The Orbiter, however, has a a lot smaller LCD cluster however matches virtually all of Konarc’s options, corresponding to turn-by-turn navigation, hill-hold, smartphone connectivity, theft and tow alerts, crash and fall alerts and motor cut-off on fall. TVS additionally presents cruise management, which is at the moment solely on the Ather 450 sequence of scooters. Proper now, you get entry to all of the options talked about above at no further price on the Orbiter, nevertheless it stays to be seen if that may change, because the TVS iQube expenses an annual subscription of Rs 999 for some superior options.
Ather Konarc S 125 vs TVS Orbiter V2: Worth
Konarc begins increased, and it solely will get dearer
The 2 variants as compared right here make the Ather about Rs 8,000 dearer than the Orbiter. When you want entry to all of the good options provided by Ather StackPro, that may enhance the hole even additional. Despite the fact that the 2 e-scooters are geared toward bringing in additional mainstream customers to the manufacturers, each have been designed with completely different demographics in thoughts. When you occur to be within the frequent demographic, although, it is best to undoubtedly take a take a look at experience earlier than choosing one over the opposite as a result of the on-paper specs don’t inform the entire story.