Ola has resumed the sale and booking of its electric scooters – S1 and S1 Pro – on Wednesday. Hailstone Made for app purchase only, after the website encountered technical difficulties last week. sales
reached a peak of four units per second CEO on Thursday Bhavish Aggarwal tweeted, but the figures for the second day are even better.
The second day of the EV era was even better than the first! Crossed ₹1100 crore mark in 2 days! The purchase window will reopen on November… https://t.co/tbEK8Ba9ap
— Bhavish Aggarwal (@bhash) 1631855294000
“In a total of two days, we have raked in over Rs 1,100 crore in sales! This is not only unprecedented in the automotive industry, but it is also the highest in a single day (by value) for a single product in Indian e-commerce. One of more sales is history,” said Agarwal.
in a blog post on Friday. “We are truly living in a digital India.”
The purchase window has now closed, but the scooters can still be booked on Ola Electric’s website. The sale will resume from November 1.
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NS Ola Electric Scooter, Manufactured at Ola Futurefactory near Krishnagiri in Tamil Nadu,
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Launched at a starting price of Rs 99,999, which includes FAME II subsidy but excluding state-level tax breaks, the Ola electric scooters come in two variants:
- Cheap Ola S1, which gets a battery pack of 2.98 kWh which is enough to travel 121 km on a single charge. Top speed is restricted at 90 kmph.
- costly Hello S1 Pro, which has a battery pack of 3.97 kWh with a range of 181 km. Its top speed is 115 kmph.
Ola will also launch an at-home service network in every city where it sells its EVs and said buyers can expect the overall cost of ownership for their EVs to be 40% lower than the petrol-powered scooters in the market today. Huh.
The scooter also includes features like keyless lock/unlock, different modes and profiles for different riders, and will even allow riders to set a mood which will change the sound and display graphics. Both the models will also get reverse mode and hill-hold assist.