Man buys Ather electric scooter worth Rs 1 lakh using Rs 10 coins, CEO Tarun Mehta shares pic

Ather CEO Tarun Mehta (extreme left) with the customer who brought the electric scooter using Rs 10 coins. (Image credit: TarunMehta/Twitter).

A Jaipur man made the headlines recently after he brought an electric scooter from Ather-worth Rs 1 lakh-using Rs 10 coins.

The customer's unique way of purchasing the "Ather 450" vehicle- priced Rs 1 lakh on the company's website- even impressed the CEO Tarun Mehta, who shared a photo with the man and a few others with Rs 10 coins kept on a table.

"A new Ather owner just bought himself a 450 in Jaipur. All with 10 Re coins," Mehta wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday.

A new Ather owner just bought himself a 450 in Jaipur

... all with 10Re coins! pic.twitter.com/VWoOJiQey2 — Tarun Mehta (@tarunsmehta) February 17, 2024

Mehta's post saw many reactions from users, with some wondering how Ather could have counted the money offered in coins to buy the electric scooter.

"Do they count coins manually or if weight of each coin remaining same they'll just weigh it all to arrive at the total?" one user wrote.

"He is definitely from Bengaluru. None of the Darshinis here accept Rs 10 coins. He has been collecting them for years!" another user wrote.

This, however, is not the first instance in which a customer has purchased a vehicle using coins.

In 2023, an Assam man had also purchased a scooter using a sack full of coins which he had saved for several years to buy the vehicle. The man, identified as Md Saidul Hoque, had saved Re 1, Rs 2, Rs 5, and Rs 10 coins for 5-6 years and then brought the vehicle.

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