Electric scooter manufacturer Pure EV has decided to recall 2,000 vehicles belonging to models ETrance Plus and EPluto 7G in the wake of fire incidents involving its scooters in Nizamabad in Telangana and Chennai. In the Nizamabad incident, an 80-year-old man died after a scooter’s battery exploded inside his house Wednesday.
“The vehicles and batteries therein shall undergo a thorough check for their health. We shall inspect the battery for any imbalance issues and shall calibrate through our device BaTRics Faraday (an AI-based hardware which can automatically identify and repair defects in Li-Ion batteries).