Reports of fire incidents at Battery Smart-run battery switching facilities for electric vehicle (EV) batteries in north India have appeared as the summer season gets underway.
A thorough investigation claims that an EV startup’s battery switching facility in New Delhi’s Janakpuri neighborhood caught fire earlier this week.
Around 50 battery packs for electric car usage were held at the Battery Smart-run facility, “added the report.
One individual lost their life in a fire at another battery-swapping facility in Lucknow’s Badshah Nagar in January.
A tiny Battery Smart store in Noida caught fire in May of last year, and two months later, “another incident occurred at another Battery Smart business in Delhi’s Sitapuri area.” “as reported by The Ken.
Two battery packs may have overheated due to a short circuit, the electric vehicle startup said in a statement, setting off the fire “.
“Two distinct batteries were seeing a rise in temperature, and our IoT-powered system warned us about it. The ground team was alerted within a minute, and they immediately followed procedure by turning off the primary power supply and deploying foam extinguishers. But, they were unable to stop the spread, and as a result, all of the batteries caught fire. The fire department was promptly notified, “Khurana said in a statement to YourStory.
The worry of EVs and batteries catching fire has returned to haunt people’s thoughts as the temperatures increase. This summer, there were multiple EV fire and explosion events, which resulted in fatalities and harsh government investigations.
According to Battery Smart, it is creating the biggest and fastest-expanding battery-swapping network for electric two- and three-wheelers in India.
Pulkit Khurana and Siddharth Sikka, both serial entrepreneurs and IIT-Kanpur grads, co-founded the Tiger Global-backed firm.
As of the most recent report, they intend to have a switching station in every 1 square kilometer of land, with a goal of creating a $17 billion exchanging business by 2025.
