Guidelines will be made regarding the safety of electric vehicles: Rules will change for testing and management of batteries,government's decision after 6 e-scooters catch fire

Occurrences of fire in electric vehicles have come to the front over the most recent couple of months. Taking into account this, the public authority is chipping away at making new guidelines in regards to testing. In this, changes will be made in the standards in regards to battery utilized in vehicles, battery the board and cell. The public authority is conversing with the electric vehicle organizations whose bikes burst into flames. Okinawa,Ola,Jitendra and Pure EV organizations are being encouraged to do whatever it may take to forestall future fire episodes. As per sources,the public authority may before long issue directions to the EV producer to adhere to the guidelines.

Something like 6 episodes of fire in electric vehicles have been accounted for in various pieces of the country in under three weeks.

On 9 April,40 electric bikes of Shah gathering's Jitendra Electric Vehicles burst into flames in a vehicle compartment in Nashik.

On March 26,a fire broke out in the S1 Pro model of Ola Electric in Dhanori area of Pune and Praise Pro model of Okinawa in Vellore,Tamil Nadu.

On 28 March,an episode was accounted for from Trichy in Tamil Nadu.

On March 29,one more occurrence was accounted for in Chennai,where an electric bike of Pure EV burst into flames.

In a meeting given in a TV news channel,NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant had said that Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) ought to review the clumps associated with the new mishap. Okinawa then chose to review more than 3000 of its bikes on 16 April.

Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari,while talking in the Lok Sabha on EV fire cases on March 31,had said that the occurrences might have occurred because of high temperature. In any case,he said that we are figuring out the purpose for the fire. For this he has requested criminological examination. He said that the public authority would make a move after the purpose for the fire broke out.