OLA S1 Pro Scooter Catches Fire at Pune, Inquiry Order by Company
OLA S1 Pro Scooter Catches Fire at Pune, Inquiry Ordered by Company
OLA Electric commenced the delivery of S1 and S1 pro from last december. There were issues reported on its software and few built quality. However, yesterday a video circulated on internet shows that S1 Pro caught a fire at Pune. The video shows that S1 Pro initially started throwing smoke and soon got engulfed in fire.
Statement from OLA Electric
We are aware of an incident in Pune that happened with one of our scooters and are investigating to understand the root cause and will share more updates in the next few days. We’re in constant touch with the customer who is absolutely safe. Vehicle safety is of paramount importance at Ola and we are committed to the highest quality standards in our products. We take this incident seriously and will take appropriate action and share more in the coming days.
Why Electric Scooter caught fire?
Electric scooter catching fire is not new since they contain huge battery packs. Often poor quality of lithium ion batteries and sometimes poor battery management system leads to these problems. OLA S1 Pro is also no exception to this problem. We recently published a comparison article of S1 Pro and Ather 450x. We clearly highlighted that S1 Pro has thermal issues and sometimes it gets stall if battery gets heated beyond limits.
OLA S1 Pro thermal issues
There are numerous review videos on internet where S1 Pro get heated and stalls abruptly. And these issues are common across all the S1 Pro delivered across India. Given, that summer has come it would be interesting to see how S1 pro battery works. We can expect few more such instances since peak of summer is yet to reach. There could be more issues in the densely populated places such Mumbai, Delhi and Hyderabad.
With S1 Pro having issues, the only sensible choice as of now should be Ather 450x. It has not yet reported any battery issues and it has better battery management system as compared to S1 Pro.
picture credit: Respective Owner
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