The recent fire incidents in electric vehicles are unlikely to have any long-term impact on the sales of EVs in the country, but there could be an immediate perception that whether these vehicles are safe or not, credit rating agency Crisil said on Tuesday.
There has been a spate of incidents where electric vehicles have caught fire, with the recent one reported from Nashik in Maharashtra — where 20 of the 40 electric scooters caught fire on April 9 when they were being loaded in a container.
Earlier in March, about four incidents of electric scooters catching fire, including in Okinawa and Ola, were reported from different places in the country, prompting the government to order a forensic investigation.
