Electrical two-wheeler maker Okinawa Autotech on Saturday mentioned it’s going to voluntarily recall 3,215 items of its Reward Professional scooters to repair any points associated to the battery within the car, beginning as we speak.
That is the primary occasion of a voluntary recall by any electrical car producer in India.
Based on Okinawa, the recall is a part of complete energy pack well being check-up camps, the place the batteries shall be checked for unfastened connectors or any injury and be repaired freed from cost at any of the Okinawa licensed dealerships pan India.
“The electrical 2W maker is working intently with the supplier companions to make sure that the restore expertise is as per the comfort of its clients, for which the car homeowners shall be contacted individually”, Okinawa mentioned, including, “This voluntary marketing campaign is within the wake of the current thermal incident and in keeping with the corporate’s long-standing dedication to buyer security.”
The transfer comes at a time the e-scooter maker is being probed by a Central authorities company over a current incident of electrical quick circuit in one among their scooters, which led to the demise of a father and daughter in Vellore, Tamil Nadu. Whereas this incident happened in March, shut on the heels of a thermal runaway incident in an Ola Electrical S1 Professional in Pune, movies of one other incident involving a hearth in an Okinaawa iPraise scooter, this time ostensibly on account of a thermal runaway, surfaced earlier in April too.
Final 12 months as effectively, movies of an Okinawa scooter in flames had surfaced on-line.
Supply: Live Mint