New Delhi: Following multiple EV fire incidents in the country and a severe case of eight people being killed late Monday night, industry leaders believe more stringent norms are required to avoid such fatal tragedies and casualties
According to Sunjay Kapur, President, ACMA, fires in ICEs are even more than EVs. Everyone needs to follow a process and evolve technology.
Even the testing agencies do not know what to test to make EVs safe from fire incidents, Pawan Goenka, Chairman, INSPACe, said at the ACMA annual convention on Wednesday.
Recently, eight people reportedly died and several others were injured after a massive fire broke out in a multi-storey building , which had an EV showroom in the basement, late on Monday night in Secunderabad, Telangana.
Since September last year, over two dozen electric scooters caught fire in India causing concern about the safety of EV batteries.
In June this year, a Tata Nexon EV caught fire in Mumbai. Earlier, the cases of fire have been seen mostly from electric scooter startups like Pure EV, Ola Electric and even the largest electric two wheeler maker Hero electric.
In late March, an Ola Electric S1 Pro scooter caught fire in Pune and in a tragic incident on the same day, a father-daughter duo died in Vellore in Tamil Nadu when the battery of their Okinawa scooter that was being charged inside the house caught fire. Two more fire incidents were reported in Tamil Nadu. In the month before 20 electric scooters from Jitendra EV caught fire while in transit in a container truck on April 9 near Nashik.
Later, an explosion in the battery of an electric scooter by Coimbatore-based Boom Motors killed a 40 year old man in Vijayawada.
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