Here’s why recall is not a bad word: The first step Ola and Okinawa must take to regain trust in EVs
Eduardo Saverin
One of the most famous recalls ever was Toyota’s recall of faulty accelerator pedals more than a decade back.
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Electric two-wheelers have encountered a barrage of issues from loss of drive to scooters going in reverse without warning to exploding batteries and burning showrooms. Buyers are worried. How can EV companies allay their fears?
A few days back, PV Koteshwara Rao, a senior citizen in Hyderabad, was riding the Ola scooter his son had bought for nearly a lakh and forty thousand rupees. That’s a lot of money to buy a scooter in India. So imagine his anger when his spanking new, fully charged scooter stopped for no apparent reason and had to call a mini truck to cart it back home. That was not the first time his Ola scooter had put him through such embarrassment. On another
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