Reliance Jio has teamed up with MediaTek, a massive fabless semiconductor company in Taiwan, to provide digital dashboards to the rapidly expanding electric scooter sector.
The collaboration, which was unveiled on Thursday at a New Delhi industry event, will enable Jio-developed hardware, an Android-based operating system, and MediaTek chips to be used in electric scooters in India and maybe other growing markets.
These instrument clusters, which show the driver’s information, are powered by MediaTek MT8766 and MT8768 system-on-chips and run the Android-based AvniOS operating system.
With the help of the alliance, Jio hopes to increase income by selling 4G subscriptions to car owners and providing value-added services like cloud and navigation software. The telecom company may eventually be able to make money off of the data that its 4G modules and clusters gather.
According to 91 TechArena, Jio Things, a division of Reliance Industries’ Jio
Platforms that creates Internet of Things (IoT) gadgets for the massive telecom company, has been developing its two-wheeler clusters since at least last year. The business’s Android-based operating system for EVs has been developed over the last many years by a committed team in Bengaluru.
The two titans may benefit greatly from the alliance. One of the largest two-wheeler marketplaces in the world, India, plans to have all two-wheeler sales powered by electric vehicles (EVs) by 2030.
With the help of the alliance, Jio hopes to increase income by selling 4G subscriptions to car owners and providing value-added services like cloud and navigation software. The telecom company may eventually be able to make money off of the data that its 4G modules and clusters gather.
Jio believes that EVs have room to develop, especially electric two-wheelers, which are becoming more and more popular. The annual sales of electric two-wheelers in India are very close to reaching a million units. In addition, it is anticipated that by 2030, the country’s market share of electric two-wheelers will have increased from 5% to above 45%.
However, Jio seems to have goals bigger than two-wheelers. To integrate its clusters and OS, the company has also been in talks with a number of partners, including a few Indian automakers.
