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Tamil Nadu man sets his Ola scooter on fire over its poor performance
This comes days after a man in Maharashtra tied his Ola electric scooter to a donkey with a rope as a form of protest.
Updated : Apr 29, 2022, 11:09 AM IST | Edited by : DNA Web Team
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Amid cases of electric scooters catching fire, a man in Tamil Nadu has set his Ola e-scooter on fire after being fed up with its poor performance. G Prithviraj, who is a physiotherapist, had bought the Ola scooter in January this year but he had been fed up with its mileage and poor service by the company.
"I had set my Ola scooter on fire as it did not give the mileage as promised by the manufacturer, and the poor service," told news agency IANS.
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According to him, he started facing problems with the vehicle from January end onwards like noise due to improper fitting of the panels, issues with the brakes, and more importantly, the low mileage - about one-third as against the promised mileage of about 180 km per battery charge.
Prithviraj said complaints were lodged about the problems and the vehicle had been serviced a couple of times. The bigger problem was the vehicle was not registered by the company with the Regional Transport Office (RTO). The company finally made arrangements for registration at Gudiyatham.
However, on Tuesday, the Gudiyatham RTO refused to register the vehicle. On his way back home, the scooter stopped midway. According to him, the vehicle showed a battery range of about 57 km but within 5-6 km of riding, it stopped and the range showed zero.
Stranded midway in the summer sun on him, he contacted Ola but the company said it would pick up the scooter at about 5.30 pm. The company declined to pick up the vehicle at a safer location.
At this point of time, he got fed up and decided to set the vehicle on fire. He asked his assistant to bring some petrol and set the scooter on fire and posted the video on social media.
Watch the video here:
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Recently Ola Electric said it is voluntarily recalling 1,441 scooters as a pre-emptive measure to conduct a detailed health check of the concerned batch.
(With agency inputs)
