Ather Konarc Waiting Period Stretches to Four Months

The Ather Konarc starts at ₹99,999 ex-showroom, which works out to about ₹1.05 lakh on the road in Mumbai on The Spec’d’s own price page. But booking one today is no guarantee of riding it home before Diwali. Ather is building roughly 35,000 scooters a month against demand its own CEO puts above 50,000, and that gap is not closing before this festive season ends.

Why Deliveries Have Stretched to Four Months

Ather first admitted waits of more than two months in several cities in August 2026. By the end of that month, some dealers were quoting four months, and a few had paused fresh bookings altogether, according to a report by Autopunditz.

The cause isn’t the Konarc specifically. It’s Ather’s whole line-up running into a wall at its Hosur factory, which is already close to its practical ceiling of about 4.2 lakh scooters a year.

Those production numbers and the demand figure both trace to Ather CEO Tarun Mehta’s own comments on the company’s Q1 FY27 earnings, as reported by Autopunditz. Mehta has said Ather could have sold 13,000 to 15,000 more scooters a month if capacity allowed.

Paid pre-orders (a refundable ₹2,500 deposit) rose 158% year-on-year to around 1.5 lakh in the same quarter, and dealer inventory fell from about 14 days of stock to just 3. The Konarc launched into this squeeze, not before it, which is why its own waits are long from day one.

What Each Konarc Variant Actually Costs

Only one Konarc price lines up cleanly across Ather’s own numbers and The Spec’d’s price pages: the entry S (100 km), at ₹99,999 ex-showroom and about ₹1.05 lakh on the road in Mumbai, by our city price pages.

The other two variants are where it gets confusing. Ather’s own launch pricing, confirmed by multiple outlets at the August 29 reveal, puts the S (125 km) at ₹1,21,999 and the S (161 km) at ₹1,44,999 ex-showroom. Our catalogue page currently shows higher figures for both, so until that’s corrected we are not quoting on-road or EMI numbers for those two. Go by the maker’s ex-showroom price for now and confirm the on-road figure with your dealer.

The base variant also happens to be the cheapest scooter among the 39 cities The Spec’d prices: Mumbai, at ₹1.05 lakh on the road, against ₹1.13 lakh in Patna and Guwahati, the dearest two. Financed over three years at 20% down, that Mumbai on-road price works out to about ₹2,789 a month on The Spec’d’s EMI calculator, which is an estimate and not a lender’s quote.

Which Variant Is Actually Worth Booking

Skip the entry S (100 km) unless your commute is genuinely short and flat. Its claimed 100 km IDC figure is the thinnest buffer of the three, and IDC numbers (like ARAI numbers for petrol vehicles) are measured in lab conditions, not Mumbai traffic with the throttle pinned.

The S (125 km) at ₹1,21,999 is only about ₹22,000 more and buys real headroom for a bad week of traffic or a missed charge. That is our judgement, not a brochure claim, and nobody has published an instrumented real-world range test for the Konarc yet, so treat every figure here, ours included, as claimed until one exists.

Claimed Range Against the Rivals It’s Actually Fighting

The Konarc’s top variant claims the longest range of this group on paper, and it is also one of the few genuinely cross-shoppable with the Bajaj Chetak, which The Spec’d has lined up side by side here. Different outlets test on different cycles, though, so treat this as a starting point for your own test ride, not a final verdict.

Should You Book Now, or Wait Out the Festive Season?

Ather’s fix is already under construction: Factory 3.0 at AURIC in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra, with its first 5-lakh-unit-a-year phase targeted to start in Ather’s fiscal Q3 FY27, October to December 2026, per Autopunditz’s reporting on the company’s own guidance.

Even once that line is running, a new plant doesn’t clear a backlog overnight, and Mehta himself has said the demand-supply gap could persist for three to four more quarters. Translated: if you book a Konarc during Navratri or Dhanteras hoping for a Diwali delivery, the honest answer is that nobody, including Ather’s own dealers, can promise that right now.

If you still want to book, get a written estimated delivery date from the dealer, not a verbal one, and confirm in writing whether your ₹2,500 deposit is refundable if that date slips again. If range anxiety isn’t a dealbreaker and you just want the cheapest electric scooter on sale this festive season, The Spec’d’s full list of electric scooters on sale in India has options with shorter waits.

The Konarc is still the most aggressively priced scooter Ather has ever sold. It just isn’t the fastest one to actually own.

How long is the Ather Konarc waiting period right now?

Ather hasn’t published a Konarc-specific number. Its overall waits across models have been reported at up to four months in some cities as of late August 2026, with a few dealers pausing new bookings. Ask your dealer for a written delivery date rather than relying on the launch-week timelines.

Will the Ather Konarc’s delivery times improve before Diwali 2026?

Unlikely to fully resolve. Ather’s new Factory 3.0 line in Maharashtra is targeted to start in the October to December 2026 window, but ramping a new plant takes time, and Ather’s own CEO has said the supply gap could last three to four more quarters.

Which Ather Konarc variant should I book?

On price alone, the entry S (100 km) at ₹99,999 is the cheapest electric scooter Ather has sold. For most daily riders, the S (125 km) at ₹1,21,999 is the better buy: a modest step up in price for meaningfully more range buffer, which matters more than the brochure number once real traffic and real weather are involved.