OLA Electric Bags 100,000 Bookings In A Day For Its E-Scooter

Ola today announced that its electric scooter received a record-breaking 100,000 reservations within the first 24 hours.

The company had opened the reservation for its electric scooter in the evening of July 15th, at the initial payment of ₹499 via olaelectric.com. The company is seeing unprecedented demand from customers who continue to throng the website to book the scooter in record numbers.

Bhavish Aggarwal, Chairman, and Group CEO, Ola said “I am thrilled by the tremendous response from customers across India for our first electric vehicle. The unprecedented demand is a clear indicator of shifting consumer preferences to EVs. This is a huge step forward in our mission to transition the world to sustainable mobility. I thank all the consumers who have booked the Ola Scooter and have joined the EV revolution. This is only the beginning!”

The Ola Scooter is the first product from Ola Electric, in the teasers posted by Bhavesh on Twitter, the company is claiming the Ola Scooter to come with class-leading speed, class-leading range, the biggest boot space as well as advanced technology that make it the best scooter customers can buy. It will be priced aggressively to make it widely accessible. The company will reveal the features and price in the coming days.

The Ola Scooter will be made in India for the world, to be manufactured at the company’s state-of-the-art Futurefactory, the world’s largest, two-wheeler factory, being built in Tamil Nadu. The first phase of the Ola Futurefactory is nearing completion and will be operationalized soon, while the full capacity of 10 million vehicles per annum will be built by next year.