Hosur resident Satish Kumar observed his scooter instantly catching hearth from beneath the seat and jumped to security. As the automobile went up in flames, passersby rushed to his assist in dousing the blaze. But the automobile acquired gutted, police stated.
Satish had purchased the electric two-wheeler final yr.
Electric scooters instantly catching hearth has turn out to be a trigger for concern of late.
In a string of such incidents lately, a father and his daughter died as a result of suffocation in Vellore district in March because of the smoke brought on by the explosion of the electric bike whereas being charged. An electric two-wheeler caught hearth in Manapparai in Tiruchirappalli district, later.
Earlier this month, a person died when the removable battery of the electric scooter stored for charging exploded in his home in Telangana.
In TN’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 automobile 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 dying of an 80-year-old man in Telangana’s Nizamabad, introduced that it has determined to recall 2,000 autos in Nizamabad and Chennai.
Concerned over the rise in incidents of electric two-wheelers catching hearth, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari had stated the businesses discovered negligent might be penalised and a recall of all faulty autos might be ordered after receiving the report of an skilled panel that has been shaped to inquire into the matter.