{"id":489852,"date":"2022-05-07T09:14:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T03:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=489852"},"modified":"2022-05-07T09:24:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T03:54:06","slug":"faulty-battery-cells-and-modules-likely-caused-e-scooter-fire-probe-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/faulty-battery-cells-and-modules-likely-caused-e-scooter-fire-probe-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Faulty battery cells and modules likely caused e-scooter fire, probe finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faulty battery cells and modules have been identified as the leading cause of electric scooters catching fire in recent weeks, according to the findings of an initial investigation, two government sources told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The probe looked into fire incidents involving three companies, including Ola Electric, which is backed by Japan\u2019s SoftBank Group, and was the country\u2019s top-selling e-scooter maker in April. \u201cIn Ola\u2019s case, the battery cells were found to be an issue as well as the battery management system,\u201d said one of the sources, who has direct knowledge of the report.<\/p>\n<p>In March, India launched an investigation over safety concerns after a spate of e-scooter fires, including one where a man and his daughter died when their e-bike \u201cwent up in flames\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faulty battery cells and modules have been identified as the leading cause of electric scooters catching fire in recent weeks, according to the findings of an initial investigation, two government sources told Reuters. The probe looked into fire incidents involving three companies, including Ola Electric, which is backed by Japan\u2019s SoftBank Group, and was the country\u2019s top-selling e-scooter maker in April. \u201cIn Ola\u2019s case, the battery cells were found to be an issue as well as the battery management system,\u201d said one of the sources, who has direct knowledge of the report. In March, India launched an investigation over safety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489852","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}