An electric scooter caught fire in Hosur, an industrial hub in Tamil Nadu’s Krishnagiri district, on Saturday inflicting panic in the realm.
The proprietor, a supervisor at a personal agency in Bengaluru, nonetheless had a providential escape.
Hosur resident Satish Kumar seen his scooter all of a sudden catching fire from below the seat and jumped to security. As the car went up in flames, passersby rushed to his assist in dousing the blaze. But the car obtained gutted, police mentioned.
Satish had purchased the electric two-wheeler final yr.
Electric scooters all of a sudden catching fire has change into a trigger for concern of late.
In a string of such incidents not too long ago, a father and his daughter died on account of suffocation in Vellore district in March as a result of smoke brought on by the explosion of the electric bike whereas being charged. An electric two-wheeler caught fire in Manapparai in Tiruchirappalli district, later.
Earlier this month, a person died when the removable battery of the electric scooter saved for charging exploded in his home in Telangana.
In Tamil Nadu’s Ambur this month, a pissed off man poured petrol on his e-scooter and set it afire because the producers didn’t ship assistance on time when he complained that the car stopped working after 50 km. The video of the person torching his personal bike went viral on social media.
Last week, electric scooter maker PURE EV, expressing deep remorse over the alleged explosion of a battery of an electric scooter resulting in the demise of an 80-year-old man in Telangana’s Nizamabad, introduced that it has determined to recall 2,000 automobiles in Nizamabad and Chennai.
Concerned over the rise in incidents of electric two-wheelers catching fire, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari had mentioned the businesses discovered negligent might be penalised and a recall of all faulty automobiles might be ordered after receiving the report of an skilled panel that has been fashioned to inquire into the matter.