S1 is priced at ₹99,999, excluding subsidies by state and governments, whereas S1 Professional mannequin is priced as much as ₹129,999.
Patrons should buy its e-scooters from September 8 with deliveries starting in October in 1,000 cities and cities throughout the nation.
Ola will promote its scooters by an omnichannel mannequin, together with each on-line and offline expertise centres that it’s within the means of establishing. It goals to have one expertise centre in each metropolis over the following three months.
“The EV transition is essential for our nation and the entire trade must undertake it. We’ve to construct the expertise in India. By 2025, all two-wheelers within the nation ought to be electrical. The EV revolution is right here to remain whether or not the incumbents prefer it or not. We would like 50% of all electrical two-wheelers produced for the world to be made in India,” Bhavish Aggarwal, chairman and group chief government officer of Ola, mentioned at a media spherical desk.
Ola had acquired greater than 100,000 pre-bookings for its scooter within the first 24 hours of opening bookings.
The demand got here, not simply from the metros, as it’s an city mobility product, but in addition from smaller cities, Aggarwal mentioned.
“The S1 and S1 Professional are trade main merchandise with best-in-class vary, pace and value,” he mentioned.
The cheaper, S1 scooter, with a 2.98 kilowatt-hour battery pack, could have a variety of 121km on an entire cost and could have a high pace of 90km per hour. The S1 Professional could have a bigger 3.97 KwH battery pack, which is able to give it a variety of 181km.