Ola Electric has announced plans to expand test ride locations for its electric scooters to more cities later this month. The next set of test ride locations will be operations in more cities from November 27, the fledgling electric vehicle company stated on Saturday.
Under the initiative, customers across 1,000 cities and towns in India would be able to test ride Ola S1 scooters. However, customers who have either bought or booked the Ola S1 and S1 pro electric scooters would be eligible initially.
Earlier this month, the company had launched the test rides in major cities such as Bangalore, Delhi, Ahmedabad and Kolkata, which was expanded to Chennai, Hyderabad, Kochi, Mumbai and Pune on November 19.
The company is looking to further expand in cities like Surat, Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode, Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Coimbatore, Vadodara, Bhubaneswar, Tiruppur, Jaipur and Nagpur from November 27 onwards.
Ola Electric CEO Bhavish Aggarwal took to Twitter to announce the expansion of test rides to 1,000+ cities across the country by December 15. “This is the largest direct to consumer outreach in Indian automotive history!,” Bhavish said in a tweet that also had a video containing testimonials of people who have already taken test rides of the company’s scooter.
Through the initiative, the company looks to add more cities to ensure that more customers can have access to test rides by December 15.
Ola’s S1 electric scooter was launched on August 15 on the occasion of India’s 75th Independence Day. The scooter has a starting price of Rs 99,999 and comes in two variants. The Ola S1 is priced at Rs 99,999, while Ola S1 Pro costs Rs 1,29,999. The price of the scooters varies in different states depending on the subsidies being offered by them on electric vehicles.
The Ola S1 range of scooters comes in 10 colours, a 36L boot space that fits two helmets, goes from 0 to 40 km/h in just three seconds, with a top speed of 115 km/h and a class-leading range of 181 kilometres for the S1 Pro.
