Ola fires 200 more engineers in fresh round of layoffsThe company had laid off around 1,000 employees already this year as the company repurposed its focus to the ride-hailing and EV business.
Can Bhavish Aggarwal pull off his electric car dream amid harsh ground realities?Aggarwal has pressed the EV accelerator hard while Ola's electric two-wheeler sales are now going south. In July, Ola Electric sold 3,861 v...
Govt vigilant about EVs safety, experts on the job: MinisterReplying to a question in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Heavy Industries, Krishan Pal Gurjar, said that the government has taken a s...
Centre sends show cause notices to Ola Electric, Okinawa, others on EV firesThe Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), which was earlier tasked with investigating electric two-wheeler fire incidents b...
Ola Electric slips to 4th spot as EV registrations fall amid fire fears"We calibrated our business priority for the month to focus on bettering our customer service and brought our TAT (turnaround time) to with...
Ola's Bhavish Aggarwal takes a dig at media after Tata Nexon EV fireBhavish Aggarwal's latest tweet came at a time when Ola Electric, along with several other prominent Electric two-wheeler makers, is facing...
DRDO report finds serious battery defects in EVs that caught fireAccording to sources in the know of the matter, these defects occur because the electric two-wheeler manufacturers like Okinawa Autotech, P...
India's Ola Electric chief Bhavish Aggarwal says e-scooter fires rare but can happen in futureThe company, backed by Japan's SoftBank Group, has recalled more than 1,400 e-scooters and appointed external experts to investigate the ca...
Ola Electric chief Bhavish Aggarwal says e-scooter fires rare but can happen in futureOla's e-scooter fire was among a spate of similar recent incidents that triggered an uproar on social media and an investigation by the gov...
Faulty battery cells, modules likely caused e-scooter fire in India, initial probe findsINDIA-ELECTRIC-Faulty battery cells, modules likely caused e-scooter fire in India, initial probe finds
A few batches of Ola e-scooters may be recalled, says Bhavish Aggarwal“We have commissioned world-class agencies on the root cause of the recent EV fire and what can be done better. We might do a recall of a f...
EV battery explosion claims life in Nizamabad, two injuredAdding fuel to concerns around electric vehicle battery safety, a case of battery explosion has been reported. An 80-year-old man died whil...
Okinawa clarifies that fire at dealership was due to an electric short-circuitThe company which announced a recall of 3,215 Praise Pro electric scooters in the first instance of an Indian manufacturer doing so after a...
India’s electric vehicles industry sees its first product recallThree of Okinawa's scooters have caught fire since October, resulting in two being injured. Ola Electric, Pure EV and Jitendra EV are other...
Okinawa to recall Praise Pro electric scooters after firesThree of Okinawa's scooters have caught fire since October, resulting in two being injured. Ola Electric, Pure EV and Jitendra EV are other...
E-scooter fires in India trigger safety concerns, in setback for Modi pushIndia wants electric scooters and motorbikes to make up 80% of total two-wheeler sales by 2030, from about 2% today, and the Modi governmen...
As fire spreads, EV makers rush to douse flamesMultiple EV industry executives that ET spoke with underscored the need to find the cause and address it. They also advocated intensive con...