Bounce partners with ONDC for EV last-mile delivery
Electric mobility company Bounce has partnered with the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) to bring its electric vehicle fleet onto India's open logistics network for last-mile delivery. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Bounce will combine its electric mobility and fleet management capabilities with ONDC's Open Delivery Protocol, a framework that lets merchants connect to multiple logistics providers through a single integration.
Unlike traditional operators, Bounce handles both vehicle manufacturing and fleet operations in-house, giving it direct control over vehicle performance and operating costs.
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Bounce currently supports more than 12,000 riders across Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mumbai, and the National Capital Region. The company expects that network to expand significantly as demand for EV-powered delivery grows.
For global logistics buyers and corridor investors watching India's digital commerce infrastructure, the partnership signals how the country's open-protocol model is lowering the barrier for specialized fleet operators to plug into national-scale demand.
"Instead of locking our riders inside a walled garden, we plug an entire manufacturer-to-gig-worker operation into an open network, and the fulfilment speed we're seeing is what happens when fleet expertise meets in-house manufacturing on open commerce," said Vivekananda Hallekere, CEO and Co-founder of Bounce.
ONDC's network already spans 50+ logistics service providers and 60,000+ merchants. Bounce adds a manufacturer-operator hybrid with a ready rider base and no walled-garden constraints, a configuration rare outside India's open-network experiment.
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