<p>Ola founder and CEO Bhavish Aggarwal on Thursday had another opportunity to take a dig at the mainstream media after reports surfaced that a Tata Nexon EV caught fire in Mumbai.</p>.<p>In a tweet, Aggarwal said that EV fires will continue to happen.</p>.<p>"EV fires will happen. Happens in all global products too. EV fires are much less frequent than ICE (internal combustion engine) fires," he said in a tweet, tagging Hormazd Sorabjee, Editor of Autocar India.</p>.<p>Earlier this year, Aggarwal called a senior auto journalist "Petrol Media", and mockingly shared pictures of Burnol in response to the criticism he faced on Twitter.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/business/indias-top-selling-electric-4-wheeler-tata-nexon-ev-catches-fire-1120621.html">India's top-selling electric 4-wheeler Tata Nexon EV catches fire </a></strong></p>.<p>Meanwhile, Ola Electric is also planning to launch its own electric car in a couple of years and recently displayed a prototype.</p>.<p>Aggarwal's latest tweet came at a time when Ola Electric, along with several other prominent Electric two-wheeler makers, is facing intense scrutiny over the faulty battery and poor design that led to several EV fire incidents in the country in the last 2-3 months.</p>.<p>In March, an Ola S1 Pro electric scooter caught fire in Pune on the side of a road, and a preliminary assessment found that it was an "isolated incident".</p>.<p>Ola Electric later voluntarily recalled 1,441 scooters as a pre-emptive measure to conduct a detailed health check of the concerned batch.</p>.<p>Amid cases of electric scooters catching fire, a man in Tamil Nadu in April set his Ola e-scooter on fire after being fed up with its poor performance.</p>.<p>G. Prithviraj, who is a physiotherapist, had bought Ola scooter in January this year, but he had been fed up with its mileage and poor service by the company.</p>.<p>"I had set my Ola scooter on fire as it did not give the mileage as promised by the manufacturer, and the poor service," he had told IANS.</p>.<p>It happened after a man in Maharashtra tied his Ola electric scooter to a donkey with a rope as a form of protest.</p>
<p>Ola founder and CEO Bhavish Aggarwal on Thursday had another opportunity to take a dig at the mainstream media after reports surfaced that a Tata Nexon EV caught fire in Mumbai.</p>.<p>In a tweet, Aggarwal said that EV fires will continue to happen.</p>.<p>"EV fires will happen. Happens in all global products too. EV fires are much less frequent than ICE (internal combustion engine) fires," he said in a tweet, tagging Hormazd Sorabjee, Editor of Autocar India.</p>.<p>Earlier this year, Aggarwal called a senior auto journalist "Petrol Media", and mockingly shared pictures of Burnol in response to the criticism he faced on Twitter.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/business/indias-top-selling-electric-4-wheeler-tata-nexon-ev-catches-fire-1120621.html">India's top-selling electric 4-wheeler Tata Nexon EV catches fire </a></strong></p>.<p>Meanwhile, Ola Electric is also planning to launch its own electric car in a couple of years and recently displayed a prototype.</p>.<p>Aggarwal's latest tweet came at a time when Ola Electric, along with several other prominent Electric two-wheeler makers, is facing intense scrutiny over the faulty battery and poor design that led to several EV fire incidents in the country in the last 2-3 months.</p>.<p>In March, an Ola S1 Pro electric scooter caught fire in Pune on the side of a road, and a preliminary assessment found that it was an "isolated incident".</p>.<p>Ola Electric later voluntarily recalled 1,441 scooters as a pre-emptive measure to conduct a detailed health check of the concerned batch.</p>.<p>Amid cases of electric scooters catching fire, a man in Tamil Nadu in April set his Ola e-scooter on fire after being fed up with its poor performance.</p>.<p>G. Prithviraj, who is a physiotherapist, had bought Ola scooter in January this year, but he had been fed up with its mileage and poor service by the company.</p>.<p>"I had set my Ola scooter on fire as it did not give the mileage as promised by the manufacturer, and the poor service," he had told IANS.</p>.<p>It happened after a man in Maharashtra tied his Ola electric scooter to a donkey with a rope as a form of protest.</p>