Another electric scooter exploded in Telangana this week. However, no one was injured in the incident. Here is everything we know about the matter so far. The internet is full of reports wherein electric scooters have caught fire in India. In some cases, owners of these electric scooters have been injured, even lost their lives. In other cases, people have escaped these incidents unscathed.
Here’s what caused Ola, PureEV, Okinawa, electric scooters to catch fire in India
Initial probe suggests that faulty battery cells and battery modules likely led to electric scooters by Ola, PureEV, and Okinawa to catch fire in India. A number of electric scooters by companies including Ola Electric, PureEV and Okinawa caught fire in India between March and April this year. In some case, users of these electric scooters managed to escape from what could have been a
Ola Electric customer sends notice to the company for making private data public
Ola Electric claims that the rider made use of all three brakes which include the front brake, rear brake and regenerative brake. After an Ola Electric scooter met with an accident in Guwahati injuring the rider, the customer has sent a takedown notice to Ola Electric for allegedly violating privacy laws by publishing the scooter’s telemetry data on social media.
Watch Video: Angry man in Maharashtra ties Ola electric scooter to donkey, parades it around town
A Maharashtra man decided to tie his Ola electric scooter to a donkey and parade it around town with banners urging people not to trust the manufacturer. After receiving no satisfactory response from Ola when the electric scooter shut down just a few days after purchasing it, a Maharashtra man decided to tie his two-wheeler to a donkey and parade it around town with banners urging people
EV maker NIO wants to build its own smartphones to take on Apple's iPhones
NIO CEO William Li wants to build smartphones to offer better integration with its EVs. Here’s what his plans are. It is relatively common for smartphone makers to enter the electric Vehicle (EV) space. Foxconn and Baidu are already involved in EV manufacturing. Xiaomi, last year, announced a new subsidiary to foray in the EV market and Apple has been
The Witcher 3’s next-gen version now planned for Q4 2022
The next-gen version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is "planned" to release in Q4 2022, according to developer CD Projekt Red. CDPR delayed the release in April without providing a new date. The next-gen version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is “planned” to release in Q4 2022, developer CD Projekt Red (CDPR) announced Thursday. Previously, CDPR was targeting a Q2 2022 launch for the free update, but it pushed the release in April
Netflix is beefing up its audio description and subtitling accessibility features
Netflix plans to expand its audio descriptions, subtitles for deaf and hard of hearing, and closed captioning features in order to make its shows and movies more accessible. Netflix’s closed captioning, subtitles for deaf and hard of hearing (SDH), and audio descriptions (AD) are all powerful tools designed to help make films and television shows more accessible to people with disabilities. But those kinds of features