With the onset of summer season, the incidents of fire in electric scooters have increased. South India In two recent incidents the battery caught fire while charging it overnight. In recent months, three pure EV scooters and three electric scooters and scooters of several other companies have caught fire in separate incidents, but the reason behind it is not yet clear.
Pure EV had earlier issued a statement expressing regret over the incident of fire in its scooter. Considering such incidents in the country, concerns arise regarding the safety of the battery. Following several electric scooter battery fire incidents, Pure EV India has shared a ‘Battery Health Tip’ to prevent battery fire. About which we are giving you information.
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The first case of EV catching fire was reported on 26 March. At that time, a blue colored OLA S1 Pro electric scooter parked on the roadside in Pune caught fire. The video of fire and smoke coming out of the battery compartment of the scooter had gone viral.
On 26 March itself, a fire broke out in an Okinawa electric scooter in Vellore, Tamil Nadu. Two people who were driving the scooter died in this incident. It was one father and the other son.
On March 28, an incident of fire broke out in an electric scooter of PureEV in Chennai. Today a new incident has come to the fore. In the last seven months, 6 cases of PureEV scooter catching fire have been reported.
On April 11, several scooters of Jitendra Electric caught fire simultaneously in Nashik. They were being taken from one place to another in a truck. The government has also ordered an inquiry in this matter.
On 18 April, a dealership agency in Okinawa in Tamil Nadu was burnt to ashes. Sources related to the matter said that first the fire started in a scooter after which the fire spread. The company has also recalled 3,215 units in the past.
On April 21, an 80-year-old man was killed by an EV in Telangana’s Nizamabad city. The battery of his PureEV electric scooter exploded after being charged all night.