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Zypp Electric appoints Tushar Mehta as the Senior Vice President and Business Head

Sep 15, 2021 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #Akash Gupta, #Co-Founder & CEO of Zypp Electric, #the Senior Vice President and Business Head, #Tushar Mehta, #Zypp Electric

Mr. Tushar Mehta has been appointed as the Senior Vice President and Business Head at Zypp Electric, India’s leading EV-based last-mile delivery startup. He has over a decade of experience building businesses for large conglomerates like Mahindra & Mahindra and Kotak Mahindra Bank and also unicorn start-ups like Cars24 and Olacabs.

Zypp’s vision is to solve last mile deliveries in a convenient, affordable and eco-friendly way, thereby building more liveable cities and a sustainable world. To Zypp, Tushar brings years of executive-level leadership experience in building million-dollar businesses from scratch at Cars24 and Olacabs.

Tushar Mehta has been appointed as the Senior Vice President and Business Head at Zypp Electric, India’s leading EV-based last-mile delivery startup. He has over a decade of experience building businesses for large conglomerates like Mahindra & Mahindra and Kotak Mahindra Bank and also unicorn start-ups like Cars24 and Olacabs.

Zypp’s vision is to solve last mile deliveries in a convenient, affordable and eco-friendly way, thereby building more liveable cities and a sustainable world. To Zypp, Tushar brings years of executive-level leadership experience in building billion-dollar businesses from scratch at Cars24 and Olacabs.

Tushar Mehta’s prior experience includes being the Business Head & Vice President for the consumer business at Cars24 where he built the B2C and C2C business from scratch and scaled it to $200m with prospects of it being multi-billion dollar in years to come. At Olacabs as a Business Head and Director, he built the Ola Fleet business to a 30K+ active fleet and helped Ola solve the supply problem and improve profitability.

“Tushar Mehta is a valuable addition to our leadership team and will bring worldwide appeal and unique business ideas to our industry. The business and expansion elements will be completely redesigned at a huge scale now to electrify deliveries. Tushar’s Business building experiences, team building and management skills will be beneficial in bringing innovative form factors to consumers. I look forward to our long association with him to build the most iconic EV companies and transform the Indian EV last mile delivery sector.” said Akash Gupta, Co-Founder & CEO of Zypp Electric.

After completing his Computer Science Engineering, Tushar went on to pursue his MBA from MDI, Gurgaon in 2008-10. Tushar is an avid sportsperson who plays multiple sports and feels indulging in sports daily helps him remain fit, relieves all the stress and channelise his energy positively. He also loves travelling as it gives him an opportunity to experience different cultures, meet new people and get a wide perspective of life.

Expressing his enthusiasm for the new position of Business Head at Zypp Electric, Tushar Mehta stated “I am looking forward to my work at Zypp Electric and the opportunity to head a team that will focus on business development, strategy, expansion, and bring cutting-edge electric vehicle led solutions to the Indian last mile delivery market. I’m ecstatic to be a member of Zypp Electric as it continues on its way to being a market leader and soon a unicorn in EV last mile delivery startups in India.”

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Zypp Electric launches services in Hyderabad

Jun 7, 2021 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #Zypp Electric

Zypp Electric (https://www.zypp.app) India’s leading EV-based startup in last-mile delivery has announced the launch of its unique services in Hyderabad today. The company has started its operation with 100 EV bikers in Hyderabad, the city of Pearls, and one of the leading technology hubs of the country. With this, Hyderabad becomes the first city for Zypp Electric to start its operations in Southern India. It has partnered with grocery, e-retail, and food tech giants like Bigbasket, SPAR Hypermarkets, and Grofers to electrify the last mile delivery. All the deliveries will be done with API integrated electric vehicles. Moreover, the company is installing 20 battery swapping & charging stations to run the vehicles smoothly.

Zypp has hired a team of professionally trained riders both male and female for their deliveries. All the riders are following the Covid etiquettes by wearing masks, gloves, and face shields for necessary protection. This will ensure the safe delivery of goods without any contact with the customers.

“We are extremely proud and excited to launch Zypp Electric’s last-mile delivery services with our 100 IoT and AI-enabled electric scooters in Hyderabad. We plan to expand to a fleet of 500 EVs in the next 3-4 months in the city. We took time to launch operations in the South as we 1st wanted to garner an EV leadership spot in the North. Our major aim is to partner with organizations, businesses, neighbourhood stores to provide eco-friendly and delivery services through our electronic bikes which will help adopt a carbon-free ecosystem to reduce pollution in the city” said Akash Gupta, Co-Founder & CEO of Zypp Electric.

ABOUT Zypp Electric
Zypp Electric is India’s leading last-mile delivery EV startup, founded in 2017 with a mission to make India carbon-free by using electric scooters. Zypp Electric tried and tested some good business models to make their journey to the great business model of making carbon-free last-mile delivery for local merchants to e-commerce giants. The company currently delivers groceries, medicines, food, packages from point A to point B through their fully automated IoT and AI-enabled scooters which are low on maintenance and high on performance. The tech tracks batteries that can be replaced at Zypp swapping stations which are installed at key touch-points. Eco-friendly deliveries reduce the carbon footprint and help to make the city pollution-free. Currently, it has over 1500+ Zypp Pilots (delivery executives) working towards this mission.