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A late entrant, Bajaj is already the No. 2 player in electric three-wheelers. It is now banking on its ‘Chetak strategy’ to take the lead.

Has the Chetak become a mascot for Bajaj Auto?
Going by the way the company is following the very same copybook responsible for its revived two-wheeler brand’s success to achieve electric three-wheeler domination, it clearly has.
See, when Bajaj started selling the Chetak electric scooter in 2020-21, it shipped a mere 1,395 units, placing it 10th on the electric two-wheeler manufacturers’ leaderboard. Slowly but surely, Bajaj kept ramping up sales as the overall electric two-wheeler industry matured. Then, in December 2024, came the kicker. It launched the Chetak 35 Series with a bigger battery. Over the next three months, the …
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