Chennai: The first batch of voluntary vehicle recalls have kicked off in the electric vehicle industry with brands like Ola, Okinawa and Pure collectively recalling nearly 7,000 e-two wheelers even as other EV makers commit to the mandatory recall mentioned by Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari last week. Last week Okinawa announced its recall of 3,215 units of its Praise Pro electric scooter \u201cto fix any issue related to batteries\u201d. According to the company, the batteries will be \u201cchecked for loose connectors or any damage\u201d and be repaired free of cost at Okinawa dealerships.
\nThe check up is in the wake of the \u201crecent thermal incident\u201d involving its Praise Pro scooter, the company said. Following Okinawa, Ola has also issued a statement saying it will recall 1,441 vehicles which will \u201cgo through thorough diagnostics across all battery systems, thermal systems as well as safety systems,\u201d said the company statement. Pure EV which has also seen incidents of fire involving its electric scooters, is recalling 2,000 units of its ETrance+ and EPluto 7G models. Pure EV has announced it will check and calibrate batteries, the battery management system and the charger in the recalled vehicles. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chennai: The first batch of voluntary vehicle recalls have kicked off in the electric vehicle industry with brands like Ola, Okinawa and Pure collectively recalling nearly 7,000 e-two wheelers even as other EV makers commit to the mandatory recall mentioned by Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari last week. Last week Okinawa announced its recall of 3,215 units of its Praise Pro electric scooter \u201cto fix any issue related to batteries\u201d. According to the company, the batteries will be \u201cchecked for loose connectors or any damage\u201d and be repaired free of cost at Okinawa dealerships. The check up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}