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The Free Press Journal|November 30, 2024
The Ather Rizta is a little bit different from the competition. We lived with it for a few days to find out how much it delivers on that promise
Sayantan De
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The Ather Rizta was launched to much fanfare in April this year and then we got to sample it for a short burst in May. While it was impressive going by our first impression, this time we had the opportunity to find out if our initial experience with the scooter would corroborate our scrutiny over an extended period. We had the scooter with us for a week, so we used it thoroughly. Here is what it was like.

We picked up the Ather Rizta with about 36 per cent SOC, which would have been a cause for concern under most circumstances, but when I plugged in the location of the office, the app happily informed me that I had enough charge for the ride. Then it was a simple matter of pushing the location from the app to the scooter itself and I was ready to navigate, with detailed maps courtesy of Google. Before I started, though, I went into the settings to make sure that some of the more useful features of Atherstack 6.0 were enabled, such as Magic Twist, Skid Control, auto brightness adjustment for the dashboard, auto-cancelling turn signals, and hill hold.

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