Electric Scooter

Electric Scooter hire company Neuron is one we’ve covered for a while with trials of their service spreading across Australia. Recently I wrote about their offering during the Melbourne Grand Prix. The company has big ambitions and today announced a successfully Series B investment round worth US$43.5 million. This brings…

Reported By:| Edited By: DNA Web Team |Source: DNA Web Desk |Updated: Apr 25, 2022, 11:57 PM IST Electric vehicles and fire have become synonymous in the past few days. After repeated complaints of fire in electric vehicles, Ola had withdrawn about 1400 of its electric scooters from the market.…

Image: Samyukta Lakshmi/Bloomberg via Getty Images There couldn't be a more horrifying metaphor for the fortunes of the electric scooter market in India. At least six scooters along with their batteries have spectacularly gone up in flames -- all within just a few days -- with exact causes still to…

Adding fuel to concerns around electric vehicle battery safety, a case of battery explosion has been reported. An 80-year-old man died while his wife and grandson suffered burn injuries when the battery of an electric scooter exploded in their house in Nizamabad town on Tuesday night, as per TOI. The…

TAIPEI: Taiwanese electric scooter maker Gogoro Inc has all the chips it needs for now, founder and Chief Executive Horace Luke said on Tuesday (Apr 19), but could face a squeeze by year-end as it pushes big plans to grow in China, India and Southeast Asia. While a global shortage of…

In the first electronic vehicle recall in India, Okinawa Autotech, an electric scooter maker announced on Saturday that it is recalling 3,215 units of its Praise Pro scooters to assess and remedy any battery issues with immediate effect. "The batteries will be checked for loose connectors or any damage and be repaired…

Generations have grown up with the loud engine sounds of approaching vehicles making the hazard obvious long before it’s seen. Electric vehicles are nearly silent, however, making them harder to spot, and since even scooters can be dangerous, Segway’s new accessory is a strap-on speaker making them sound like they’re…

Home News Computing (Image credit: Uladzik Kryhin / Shutterstock) The days of working from home (opens in new tab) will soon come to an end for Google (opens in new tab) employees in the Bay Area and several other US locations but the company hopes to entice them to return…

Lyft is integrating Spin’s electric scooters into its app, with the goal of eventually featuring the scooters in all 60 cities where Spin operates in the US. The move comes amid more consolidation in the micromobility world after Berlin’s Tier Mobility acquired Spin from Ford earlier this month. Lyft, which…

StoreDot, an Israeli developer of extreme fast-charging (XFC) battery technology for electric vehicles (EVs), has nabbed a multi-million-dollar investment from Indian electric scooter maker Ola Electric, according to a company announcement Monday. The Bengaluru-based Ola Electric will manufacture and integrate StoreDot’s battery tech for future vehicles in India, the announcement…