According to media sources, Ola Electric has reportedly delayed the delivery of its S1 and S1 Pro electric scooters by two weeks to a month due to a global semiconductor chip shortage. The electric vehicle manufacturer had planned to start customer deliveries later this month, but that has now been put back to mid to late December.
The first set of deliveries, which were previously scheduled for October 25 to November 25, will now most likely occur between December 15 and December 30.
Customers who had reserved an e-scooter unit received an email from the company, claiming that the delivery delay was inevitable. In an email to consumers, it apologized and stated that manufacturing is being increased in order to provide scooters to customers as soon as possible.
On November 10, Ola Electric initiated the final payment window for the S1 and S1 Pro electric scooters, confident in their ability to deliver the vehicles on schedule. The company began test rides for consumers in Bengaluru, Delhi, Ahmedabad, and Kolkata on the same day. On November 19, the company started test rides in five more cities: Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kochi, and Pune.
The manufacturer is already bringing its S1 and S1 Pro electric scooters on test rides across the country, with the goal of covering 1,000 cities and towns by mid-December. It’s being promoted as the country’s largest electric vehicle test drive program. The feedback to the test rides, according to the company, has been overwhelmingly positive.
Surat, Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode, Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Coimbatore, Vadodara, Bhubaneswar, Tiruppur, Jaipur, and Nagpur are among the cities where Ola Electric will begin test rides on November 27.
The S1 variant of the Ola electric scooter costs 1 lakh, while the S1 Pro variant costs 1.30 lakh (ex-showroom, before state subsidies).
Source: auto.hindustantimes.com
