Here is good news for the owners of recently launched electric vehicle, Mahindra e2o who can now know the state of charge in the battery of their car and how far they can travel with the available charge though their smartphones.

Mahindra’s e2o is the first and only Indian car, and among the few worldwide, to have telematics based features.

Not only this they can also remotely control its air-conditioning and set schedules to pre-heat or pre-cool the car before they use it, lock or unlock the car doors and find the nearest charging stations.

This has become possible with Mahindra Reva Electric Vehicles Pvt. Ltd’s  strategic partnership with Vodafone who will provide Machine-to-Machine (m2m) communication services to power the recently launched electric vehicle, Mahindra e2o.

The e2o which has just been launched in India is a truly ‘connected car’ and is among a select few in the world to support telematics.

The users can also an emergency boost charge with a command on the smart phone to go an extra 8-10 kms.

Naveen Chopra –Director, Vodafone Business Services said, “Our secure telematics connectivity offering, best in class m2m service platform and a superior network which has been tailor-made to suit unique aspects of Mahindra Reva’s product and industry processes”.

Chetan Maini, Chief of Strategy & Technology, Mahindra Reva Electric Vehicles Pvt. Ltd. said, “The e2o is the first and only Indian car, and among the few worldwide, to have telematics based features that enable ‘anytime, anywhere connectivity’ between our customers and their cars. The high performance telematics solution developed by Mahindra Reva for the e2o offers one of the richest set of telematics enabled features offered on any car in the world today. We are sure that our association with Vodafone will provide an even greater value proposition to our customers and enable new innovations in this exciting space in the future”.

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