'Looking at synergies with EV business, will announce details soon'
The experience centres will enable customers to touch and feel Ola scooters, clarify their queries, and avail support both before and after purchase
The SoftBank-backed company expects to turn cash-flow positive in three quarters and highlighted that it has more than 60,000 scooters on the road, according to a Kotak Institutional equities report
Mass production to begin in 2023 at upcoming Gigafactory; firm says use of specific chemistry and materials enables the cell to pack more energy, improves its overall life cycle
Ola Electric, which had to defer e-scooter sales due to a website glitch last week, opened the purchase of Ola S1 and S1 Pro on Wednesday
The company has claimed this to be the largest long-term debt financing agreement for the Indian EV industry
Tata is also an early investor in ANI Technologies, Ola's parent company. He had invested in ANI Technologies in July 2015
India's largest taxi aggregator Ola has kicked off a pilot project to demonstrate mass electric mobility in partnership with carmaker Mahindra and the government of India in the city of Nagpur, Maharashtra. Ola will aggregate electric cars, buses, rickshaws and autos on its platform, allowing customers to book them in a manner similar to how they hail gas-powered cabs today. Initially a fleet of 100 Mahindra e2o plus hatchbacks, along with another 100 vehicles from manufacturers such as Tata Motors, Kinetic, BYD and TVS will be available to customers in Nagpur. "India has the need as well as the potential to set a global example on electric adoption to power its mobility needs. We believe that Electric Mobility in a multi-modal format, will be key towards realizing our mission of building mobility for a billion Indians," said Bhavish Aggarwal, co-founder and CEO at Ola. Ola says it has already invested Rs 50 crore in procuring electric vehicles for the pilot and setting up 50 ...