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Ola Electric delivers first 100 scooters without some promised features


Ola Electric stated on Wednesday that it has delivered the primary 100 Ola S1 scooters to customers in Bengaluru and Chennai. The corporate organised a particular occasion at Ola’s headquarters in Bengaluru to mark the graduation of deliveries. Founder Bhavish Aggarwal was additionally current.

Whereas there have been round 40 prospects current on the venue, three prospects who ET spoke to stated that among the promised features — the cellular app, hill maintain, cruise management, voice instructions and Bluetooth — had been but to be enabled. Clients had been informed that it might take one other month for most of the options to be enabled by way of over-the-air software program updates.

Varun Dubey, chief advertising and marketing officer of Ola Electrical, informed ET that the corporate had already introduced that sure options might solely be enabled by way of over the air updates. Ola Electrical has been beneath strain from prospects for delay in supply of scooters, which the corporate promised would start in October.

The corporate is constructing the two-wheelers in what it claims is the world’s greatest scooter manufacturing unit in Tamil Nadu, which is able to ultimately have the ability to produce 10 million scooters a yr. In October, Ola Electrical stated it had raised $200 million led by Falcon Edge and Softbank at a valuation of $3 billion.

Ola Electrical is taking an unconventional method by delivering scooters on to prospects’ doorsteps, as towards the brick-and-mortar mannequin practised by conventional automotive corporations. The corporate had final month rolled out take a look at rides to prospects throughout India.

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