Battery swapping answer to EV fires
The Centre is working on rules to make batteries used in scooters, motorcyles and three-wheeler rickshaws swappable across different models. The draft policy released by the Niti Aayog has acquired urgency in the wake of a number of e-vehicles catching fire.
Ola on Sunday said it was recalling all the 1,144 electric scooters of a single batch to check for any disconfiguration. Industry welcomed the policy with caution.
Sohinder Gill, CEO of Hero Electric Vehicles and a spokesperson for Society for Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles (SMEV), said battery swapping might just be the answer to the fire incidents.
