The capacity at Hosur plant will be enhanced by 75,000 units while the Phase I of AURIC factory in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar will start production from Dec 2026
Ather Energy will expand its annual production capacity by 2.25 lakh units by December 2026. The brand stated that manufacturing capacity will be enhanced by 75,000 units, from 4.2 lakh to 4.95 lakh units, at the Hosur factory in Tamil Nadu. In addition, the new facility in AURIC, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (Maharashtra), is on track to begin commercial production in phases from Dec 2026, with Phase 1 having an annual production capacity of 5 lakh units. The company has invested approx 122 crores across the two facilities for these capacity enhancements.
The Bengaluru-based EV start-up further added that it will expand the AURIC plant’s initial annual capacity by 1.5 lakh units to 6.5 lakh units by Q2 FY28. The Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar factory is likely to run on its total capacity around July-September 2027. With these expansions, Ather’s combined installed annual capacity across Hosur and AURIC will reach approximately 11.4 lakh units by Q2 FY28.
Tarun Mehta, Co-founder & CEO, Ather Energy, said, “At Ather, demand has more than doubled year-on-year this quarter, and to meet it, we are further augmenting our production capacity at Hosur and AURIC. With Konarc taking Ather to a wider set of customers, we see significant headroom for growth ahead.” The brand presently retails three electric scooters namely Rizta, Konarc and 450.
The brand also witnessed an exceptional rise in customer enquiries as they went up by 109 percent on a YoY basis in Q2 FY27. Ather received nearly 10 lakh queries while pre-orders more than doubled to 1.80 lakh units in Q2 FY27. The demand outnumber available production capacity even as the Hosur facility operated at 98 percent capacity utilisation during peak production in Q2 FY27.
Electric two-wheeler registrations in India reached a record high of approximately 5.98 lakh units in Q2 FY27, up by 82 percent on a YoY basis, as per Vahan data. The e2w penetration surged to double-digits at 11.2 percent for the quarter from 7.8 percent a year earlier and touched an all-time high of 11.6 percent in Sep 2026. This robust momentum was broad-based, with registrations growing 85 percent in south India, 82 percent in the rest of India and 79 percent in central India.
During the last quarter, Ather Konarc was launched in the Indian market on the occasion of Ather Community Day on August 29, 2026. It is the brand’s first scooter built on the new EL platform. Some of the prominent highlights of the e-scooter are a metal body, long-travel suspension, an adjustable backrest and a 14-inch front wheel. It requires servicing only once a year while the new Bedrock battery comes with a 10-year warranty.
