A Pure EV electric scooter caught fire while it was being charged in Gujarati, India. The fire incident involved the EPluto 7G e-scooter and occurred last week. This again brings to the fore the need for a firm regulatory framework to prevent such occurrences.
India has witnessed a growing number of fire incidents for e-scooters in recent months. The budding EV industry in India awaits new government quality and safety guidelines to sanitize the EV space in India. Fortunately, no casualties were reported in the fire incident which was widely circulated on social networks. This is the fifth reported case of Pure EV’s e-scooter fires and it calls for concern. The fourth case of fire was reported barely one month ago.
Pure EV has not made any statement on the current fire incident. The company had recalled 2,000 e-scooters back in April 2022. The issue of e-scooter fires is closely related to battery overheating or malfunction. The country lacks a comprehensive battery standard for electric two-wheelers. It is now very urgent that the authorities do the needful by providing BIS standards. This will create some minimum safety benchmarks for two-wheeler EV batteries. Electric scooter fires have been prevalent in India and experts have pointed out battery quality as a major cause of these fires. It has affected several other brands and can erode market confidence if not tackled swiftly.
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