by Suman Gupta
- The agreement will facilitate ticket bookings of NueGo fleet across all routes pan India
- Enables seamless and convenient booking experience for NueGo electric buses between Delhi-Chandigarh, Delhi-Jaipur and Indore-Bhopal
Mumbai, 11th January 2023: NueGo, India’s first premium electric inter-city coach services brand, today announced the strategic partnership with Paytm, India’s leading payments and financial services company and the pioneer of QR and mobile payments, launching a convenient bus ticket booking facility for its customers. This partnership would allow commuters to digitally reserve the seat of their choice in all NueGo buses across India, providing a seamless digital booking experience.
Paytm will enable commuters to book tickets without being physically present inside the bus or at the ticket counter, making the travel experience even more seamless. The tickets can be bought using various digital payment methods including Paytm Wallet, Paytm UPI, net-banking, and credit/ debit cards. These tickets can be pre-booked as per the convenience of the commuters.
NueGo, the flagship inter-city electric mobility coach brand of GreenCell Mobility is currently plying across India primarily on the Bhopal-Indore, Delhi-Chandigarh and Delhi-Jaipur routes. NueGo aims to provide exceptional ride quality and in-cabin experience for the inter-city travelers while ensuring a safer and greener ride. Aimed at the new age traveler, the association with Paytm will enable NueGo customers to avail the Paytm ticketing service across all operational routes delivering an augmented travel experience.
Speaking on the occasion, Sumit Mittal, COO & Director Finance, GreenCell Mobility said,
“We are happy to partner with Paytm, India’s leading payments and financial services company and the pioneer of QR and mobile payments, for online bus ticket booking service for NueGo. We at NueGo aim to create and endorse the mobility solutions that are future ready. We believe that digitizing the process will help us provide a holistic travel experience with our world class electric coach services. The digitalization will help us ensure and promote safe, seamless, contactless travel and reduced congestion on ticket counters”
Paytm Spokesperson said, “For millions of users, Paytm is the go-to app for all their travel ticketing needs. Our endeavour is to enable convenient travel for our users and provide them with a wide range of bus service operators that they can choose as per their suitability. Now, with NueGo onboard, we can also offer our users sustainable travel options.”
About NueGo:NueGo is the flagship inter-city pan Indian electric mobility coach brand of GreenCell Mobility. NueGo has a service planned roll out across 30 cities wherein 350 state of art buses will redefine the mass transport sector by developing green routes offering world class travel experience for Indian customers. As a trailblazer for sustainable traffic, NueGo is the first pan Indian electric coach brand offering end to end journey experience for travellers. A customer centric brand, NueGo buses are a climate-friendly alternative offering holistic travel solutions through customer assist services like lounges, feature rich mobile app, exhaustive bouquet of VAS services, building towards a seamless travel experience. While NueGo handles technology development, network planning, operations control, marketing and sales, quality management and continuous product expansion, trusted NueGo-partners maintain the daily route operations.
About GreenCell Mobility Pvt. Ltd:GreenCell Mobility (GreenCell) has been set up to become a leading pan-India shared electric mobility player by leveraging proven global experience, developments in e-mobility technology, and the Government of India’s strong push for electrification of transportation in India. GreenCell has been promoted by EverSource Capital, the fund manager of India’s pioneering climate impact fund. EverSource Capital is an equal joint venture between Everstone Group, one of Asia’s premier investment groups with assets in excess of US$6 billion across private equity, real estate, credit, climate impact investments and green infrastructure and venture capital; and Lightsource bp, a global leader in development and management of solar energy projects.
GreenCell is building a platform to provide Electric Mobility-as-a-Service (eMaaS), initially using electric buses and delivering the core value proposition of cheaper non-polluting on-demand shared transportation, charging infrastructure, and enabling products for the e-mobility value chain. For more information, please visit http://www.greencellmobility.com
