As per stories arriving late night on Wednesday, a buyer unit of Tata Nexon’s electrical four-wheeler Tata Nexon EV caught fireplace. The incident occurred close to Panchvati Resort positioned in Vasai West, a suburb in Mumbai. A video of the incident was shared by journalist Kamal Joshi, who tagged Tata Motors in his tweet and wrote, “Tata Nexon EV catches large fireplace in Vasai West (close to Panchvati resort), a Mumbai suburb, Maharashtra.” The person additional wrote that the fireplace has been doused. Precise reason for the incident will not be but recognized.
In the meantime, Tata Motors issued a press release as we speak concerning the identical. The assertion learn, “An in depth investigation is at present being carried out to establish the details of the latest remoted thermal incident that’s doing the rounds on social media. We are going to share an in depth response after our full investigation.”
It additional reads, “We stay dedicated to the security of our autos and their customers. It is a first incident after greater than 30,000 EVs have cumulatively lined over 1 million km throughout the nation in almost 4 years.”
Joshi’s viral tweet caught Ola founder and CEO Bhavish Aggarwal’s consideration. Aggarwal took this chance to take a dig at Tata Motors EV and wrote, “In case you missed it. EV fires will occur. Occurs in all international merchandise too. EV fires are a lot much less frequent than ICE fires.”
The EV business of late has been battling extreme criticism over the difficulty of car security, after a number of stories of two-wheelers catching fireplace got here to the fore on social media. The Indian authorities too took cognizance of the severity of the difficulty and had instituted a high-level skilled committee to look into the difficulty.
The committee, subsequently, submitted its report late final month to the federal government. The hearth incidents reported earlier concerned electrical two-wheelers from producers like Ola Electrical, Okinawa, and several other others.
Tata Motors launched its long-range Nexon EV on Might 11. Tata Nexon EV comes with CCS2 battery that takes virtually 8.5 hours to cost from any 15A plug level and costs inside round an hour utilizing quick charging. The all-new Tata EV gives a peak torque of 245 Nm and gives an influence of 129 PS. Tata Nexon EV is available in two drive modes—Drive and Sports activities.
