Ola co-founder Bhavish Aggarwal stated that Ola Electric has accomplished 20,000 test rides for its S1 and S1 Pro electric scooters and the corporate is now aiming to conduct 10,000 test rides in a day ranging from this month throughout 1,000 cities.
Meanwhile, Indian ride-hailing firm Ola has acquired 1 million reservations for its electric scooter, Chief Executive Officer Bhavish Aggarwal stated on Thursday.
The firm had, on August 15, unveiled its Ola S1 electric scooter in two variants — S1 and S1 Pro — at ₹99,999 and ₹1,29,999, respectively (ex-showroom together with FAME II subsidy and excluding state subsidies). While the sale was to start out on September 8, it postponed the sale course of by every week to September 15 because it confronted “technical difficulties” in making the web site for purchases dwell for purchasers.
Ola Electric had kicked off test rides in Bengaluru, Delhi, Ahmedabad, and Kolkata on November 10, after which opened up 5 extra cities – Chennai, Hyderabad, Kochi, Mumbai, and Pune on November 19.
Ola Electric can also be investing in establishing its electric car charging community ‘Ola Hypercharger Network’, to spice up charging infrastructure within the nation. It plans to arrange 100,000 two-wheeler charging factors throughout 400 cities.
The firm was planning to start out deliveries of the electric scotter in November for consumers who’ve booked their items, however will now have the ability to take action solely by third or fourth week of this month.
Bhavish Agarwal-led Ola Electric has written to its clients about unavoidable delays in supply of S1 and S1 Pro electric scooters, in keeping with numerous media stories. The delay is on account of scarcity of elements amid a world chip scarcity.
The Ola scooters include three trip modes – Normal, Sport and Hyper, together with prompt acceleration, steady high-speed trip, amongst others, there are additionally elements like a big show display screen with an Android-based OS, app management, audio system, USB level for charging and many others.
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