EVs catching fire because of 'mad rush' to get into business: Rajiv Bajaj

'Issue is the underlying process of the manufacturing,' says Bajaj Auto MD.

Electronic vehicles catching fire show poor manufacturing and India must avoid "mad whole rush" for untested products, said Rajiv Bajaj, the managing director of Bajaj Auto, on Friday, as he criticized "diluted norms".

Electric scooter fires have made news this year, and last month a report by the state-run Defence Research & Development Organisation defects in batteries as the cause. The defects may have crept in because electric two-wheeler companies intentionally used lower-grade materials to cut costs, said the report.

"The issue is not the fire itself. This (such incidents) happened in the vehicles with internal combustion engines as