The Ather Rizta is a family electric scooter manufactured by Indian Scooter company Ather Energy.
The Ather Rizta was launched during the Ather Community Day in Bengaluru on April 6, 2024. Developed under codename project Diesel, It is slated to be the brands most mass-market model yet. Ather has based the Scooter on the Ather 450 Platform developed by the company.
Ather has launched the Scooter in two variants, Rizta S and Rizta Z with a 2.9 and a 3.5kwh lithium-ion battery packs respectively. The Scooter has 34L under-seat storage capacity, Bluetooth connectivity, turn-by-turn navigation, USB connectivity and a multilingual 7-inch TFT instrument cluster running Atherstack 6, a version of Android with 16GB of storage and 8GB of RAM.
Variants + Ather Rizta variants (as of September 2026) Variant Battery Claimed range (IDC) Price (ex-showroom) Rizta S 2.7 kWh (LFP) / 2.9 kWh (NMC) 123 km Rizta Z 2.7 kWh (LFP) / 2.9 kWh (NMC) 123 km Rizta S 3.5 kWh (NMC) 161 km Rizta Z 3.5 kWh (NMC) 161 km
Updates July 2026: battery packs revised from 2.9 kWh/3.7 kWh to 2.7 kWh/3.5 kWh; the smaller pack gained an LFP cell-chemistry option alongside the existing NMC cells, and charging time on the 900 W charger fell to 3 hours 12 minutes (0–80%) from 4 hours 30 minutes. 2025: the Rizta Z's instrument console gained touchscreen support and a new Eco mode via an over-the-air software update. July 2026: a "Pothole+ Alerts" feature, using crowdsourced data from other Ather scooters, was added to the Rizta Z via an OTA update.
Sales Date Cumulative units sold April 2024 Launch 100,000 October 2025 200,000 April 2026 300,000 (76% of Ather Energy's total FY2026 dispatches)
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