Chips and electronics’ shortage takes a toll on Ola electric scooter delivery schedule 
Uh oh! Folks, in case you have been eagerly ready to take your Ola S1 or S1 Pro e scooter’s delivery, we’ve some information for you and we are going to want you to sit down down for it. According to a new ETAuto report, the worldwide shortage of chipsets and different digital elements akin to lithium ion cells is beginning to take a toll on the delivery schedules of Ola S1 electric scooter and the Ola S1 Pro electric scooter as effectively. This is particularly regarding for the beginner EV producer which has been struggling to stay to the schedules and timelines it beforehand promised to prospects. Ola Electric lately wrote to prospects awaiting their probability to deliver their new Ola e scooter dwelling, saying the corporate needed to determined to stretch out the primary delivery window by a minimum of three to 5 weeks.
That just isn’t all although; the corporate has but once more pushed again the second buy window for Ola scooters in India. The final time Ola Electric stated it could lastly open the second buy window, i.e. a timeframe inside which new prospects who had made reservations for the scooter will be capable of guide the scooter for buy, on 16 December. At this level, it ought to come back as no shock that this window too has been pushed again until a minimum of January although no fastened date has been shared but. We perceive the method appears complicated, so enable us to simplify it for you: Folks who’ve paid ₹499 should wait longer to pay ₹20,000 and make Ola electric scooter reserving for themselves.
As famous above, this isn’t the primary time Ola Electric has pushed again certainly one of its timelines. Before this newest delay, the corporate had additionally moved the deadlines for Ola Electric check rides and beginning the deliveries of its electric scooters from 25 October to 10 November.
However, we should notice that Ola Electric is, certainly not, the one automaker to be affected by the worldwide chips shortage. OEMs everywhere in the world are struggling to provide automobiles and guarantee well timed delivery of their automobiles when the chipsets that represent notably necessary options of their automobiles. For Ola Electric, nonetheless, the chips shortage comes at a horrible time: the corporate launched its first-ever electric scooter in India solely a couple of months in the past. With all that build-up for the Ola S1 and Ola S1 Pro electric scooters, the lack to stay to schedules would understandably have an effect on patrons’ expertise — a moderately troublesome place for a new firm to search out itself in.