Gadkari asks companies to recall defective EVs, warns of penalties
The government will penalise e-scooter companies violating safety and it wants immediate recall of defective batches of vehicles, said Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport and Highways, on Thursday.
The ministry has formed an expert committee to investigate two-wheelers fires that caused deaths and injuries and make recommendations. “Based on the reports, we will issue necessary orders on the defaulting companies. We will soon issue quality-centric guidelines for Electric Vehicles,” Gadkari said in a series of posts on Twitter.
His statement came hours after a PureEV e-scooter caught fire in Hyderabad, causing the death of one person and injuring two. Earlier, a similar incident had also caused two deaths in Tamil Nadu.
