EScooter e-scooter fires rare but may occur in future, says Ola Electric chief Bhavish Aggarwal: Report
Ola Electric CEO Bhavish Aggarwal hasn't ruled out more fires in electric scooters in the future while adding that such incidents are very rare, according to media reports.
"Will there be occurrences in the future, there might be," Chief Executive Bhavish Aggarwal responded, when asked a question about the fires at a private event on Sunday, Reuters reported.
According to the report, at the event the company previewed a new operating system for its e-scooters.
"But our commitment is that we will make sure we analyse every issue and if there are fixes to be done we will fix them," he said, according to a recording from the event reviewed by Reuters.
He described the fires as "very rare and isolated" in a recording from the event.
Aggarwal added that petrol-fuelled vehicles had greater need of quality control regulations than the EV industry.
The fire issue pertains to the two-wheeler industry as a whole and Fire safety is a broader issue in the automotive industry, said chief financial officer Arun Kumar told Reuters.
Initial results of the government investigation of the e-scooter fires found an issue with Ola's battery cells and battery management system, Reuters reported last week.
However, the firm said its battery management system was not at fault.
"There will be, sometimes, some minor defects in, maybe the cell, maybe something else, which will cause some internal short circuit," Aggarwal said, adding that Ola had just one incident among its 50,000 e-scooters on the road, stated the Reuters report.
Fires incidents involving e-scooters from Indian start-ups Okinawa and PureEV are also being investigated.
Aggarwal stressed that all companies should source components responsibly and not from "unqualified Chinese suppliers", for instance, the report added.
Ola imports its from South Korea's LG Energy Solution.
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