Electric Vehicles Going Mainstream Fire Incidents Help Industry Mature

 Electric bikes are going standard and the fire episodes will just assist producers with zeroing in on quality, consequently assisting the business with developing, as per Ather Energy prime supporter and CEO Tarun Mehta.

The Hero MotoCorp-supported firm expects that before this decade's over up to 30 million electric bikes would be sold in India and Ather Energy would contribute "much more" for limit development over the course of the following couple of years.

"What has happened as of late, I think, has wound up developing the business. This will push an ever increasing number of producers to zero in additional on quality and dependability," Mehta told PTI.

He was answering a question on how the fire episodes of electric bikes of different producers, like Ola Electric, Okinawa, PureEV and, surprisingly, Ather's only case, would influence the development of EVs in India.

The episodes are pushing an ever increasing number of players to zero in on "quality as the main boundary", he expressed, including any case "EVs are going standard regardless, yet with better quality items, this will turn into an easy decision".

In April this year instances of electric bikes of makers — like Ola Electric, Okinawa Autotech and PureEV — it were accounted for to burst into flames. It incited the public authority to frame a board to look at.

Association street transport and parkways serve Nitin Gadkari cautioned organizations of punishments assuming that they were viewed as careless and said they would be arranged to review the deficient vehicles.

Hence, Ola Electric reviewed 1,441 units of its electric bikes. Okinawa likewise declared its review of 3,215 units of its Praise Pro electric bike to fix any issue connected with batteries. Additionally, Pure EV reviewed 2,000 units of its ETrance+ and EPluto 7G models.

On the episode of an Ather electric bike bursting into flames, Mehta said it was "a mishap vehicle, where screws were supplanted, water was poured in..it was not a genuine situation".

"We've never had a fire in a working vehicle. We're incredibly pleased with that record," he added.

Ather Energy has focussed on quality and dependability from the very beginning, Mehta said adding, "We've never raced through a send off. We've never attempted to skirt a testing step. We've been developing over the last seven-eight years and we've remained very engaged".

On the capability of the electric bike market in India, Mehta said it will be tremendous and "before this decade's over, 20-30 million electric bikes will be sold in the country".

To stay aware of the interest, he said, "We will put much more cash in limit development over the course of the following couple of years. The initial two plants are only a beginning stage".

He, in any case, declined to remark on the organization's arranged future speculations.

Last year in November, the organization declared a speculation of Rs. 650 crore to set up its subsequent assembling plant at Hosur in Tamil Nadu to expand its general creation ability to 4 lakh units from 1.2 lakh units each year.