{"id":490308,"date":"2022-05-09T10:42:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T05:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=490308"},"modified":"2022-05-09T11:57:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T06:27:13","slug":"electric-scooter-fire-finger-at-faulty-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/electric-scooter-fire-finger-at-faulty-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric scooter fire finger at faulty batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faulty battery cells and modules have been identified as the leading cause of electric scooters catching fire in India 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&#8217;s SoftBank Group, and was the country\u2019s top-selling e-scooter maker in April. <\/p>\n<p>\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faulty battery cells and modules have been identified as the leading cause of electric scooters catching fire in India 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&#8217;s 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","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,245,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490308","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=490308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}