Mumbai, April 17 -- Ather Energy recently concluded an all-India firmware development hackathon - 'ByteBattles' held in collaboration with Infineon and Elektrobit.

It was a competitive event where participants were asked to program a set of vehicle features using Ather's Application Software Development Kit (ASDK). A total of 65 participants from academia including IIT Madras, SRM, MKSSS Cummins College and from the auto-industry including Royal Enfield, Continental Automotive Components India Pvt Ltd, Chara Technologies, The Energy Company and Nunam Technologies took part in the challenge.

Participants were able to implement innovative features on Ather scooters in just one day owing to the ease-of-use of Ather's ASDK. Ather developed ...