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Overpriced and difficult to even get a test ride. Yeah to hona hi tha. autocarindia.com/bike-news/hond…

Ola Electric held 35% of India’s electric scooter market when it IPO’d in August 2024. In February 2026, that number is 3.5%. A 10x collapse in 18 months. The stock listed at ₹76 per share. It trades around ₹24 today. The company that once commanded a $5.4 billion valuation is now worth roughly $1.2 billion. The core problem is service. Ola Electric gets around 80,000 customer complaints every month. The National Consumer Helpline logged over 10,000 complaints in a single year, which triggered a formal government probe. Ola told regulators it had resolved 99.1% of complaints. When the consumer protection authority actually called 130 of those customers to check, 79.2% said they were still dissatisfied. Sales reflect this. Ola sold 53,647 scooters in its best month (March 2024). By February 2026, that number was 3,968. A 93% drop. The company slipped from #1 to #6, outsold for the first time by Greaves Electric’s Ampere brand. TVS and Bajaj, two legacy players who entered EVs years after Ola, now control a combined 51% of the market. Rajiv Bajaj recently called Ola “a non-entity.” Three weeks ago, a Goa consumer court issued a bailable arrest warrant against Bhavish Aggarwal personally because a customer’s scooter was taken in for repair and the company couldn’t explain where it went. The bail was set at ₹1,47,499, exactly the scooter’s purchase price. Bombay HC later stayed the warrant, but Goa had already suspended all new Ola registrations back in November 2025 due to the complaint backlog. Quarterly revenue fell 57% year-on-year. Today, Bhavish is running a cricket match promo offering ₹10,000 off blue scooters. The top reply under this tweet is from a customer whose Ola has been dead at a service center for 74 days with no diagnosis.

My suggestion - take the metro

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Crazy demo.

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Best car for the hills...

A 1 crore earning techie's life has no value in Bengaluru. And if you're not earning that much? Your life has even less. My sister and her friend were driving home in my car. They stopped at a red light - the logical thing anyone does. A drunk driver in a mini-truck didn't feel the need to stop. He slammed into them instead. I know he was drunk. She knows it. The highway police knows it. The truck owner knows it. No arrest was made. The truck driver never showed up at the station. The owner never showed up. Nobody cared. My sister and her friend - both injured, both terrified - kept going back to the station, back to the accident site, explaining what happened over and over, just trying to get a report filed. I was in the US. All I could do was talk to them on calls, helpless. Here's what the police told them: "If nobody died, an FIR doesn't make sense." "Just claim first party insurance." "Third party insurance doesn't pay much anyway." And then, quietly, one officer pulled them aside and told the truth: "These truck mafia bribe us. Nothing will happen." Nothing happened. The truck was KA04 AE6550. The police themselves said if they'd been on a two-wheeler, both would be dead. We had 100% insurance from Reliance. Claim rejected. Reason? "Misrepresentation of facts." These two, even while injured, kept showing up to represent the facts. Reliance still found a way to deny them. The law says if someone hits you from behind, the person behind is at fault. It was a red light. How does a truck driver not see that? Trust me, this isn't about money. I'll manage the repairs and the medical bills. I have savings. And I have a decent credit score; I'll take a personal loan if I have to. That's not the point. The point is this: my sister is afraid now. Afraid that anything can happen to her at any moment and there's no one - no system, no law, no institution - that will protect her. But how do I tell her the world is supposed to be fair? How do I tell her to trust the system? How do I explain that the drunk driver walks free, the truck owner was never questioned, and the police pocketed their bribe and closed the file? I can't say to any official, "What if this was your daughter? Your sister?" Because their daughters travel in cars with security escorts. They will never know what it feels like to be ordinary and unprotected. So I'm saying it to you, an ordinary reader. You're on the road. You stop at a red light. A drunk driver in a truck rear-ends your car. Your loved one is inside, terrified. And then you learn: there is no recourse. None. The truck owner pays off the cops. The insurance company rejects your claim. The system shrugs. This is Bengaluru in 2025. This is India in 2025. This is what your life is worth here. One more thing. The friend in the car? He's one of the smartest people I know. close to top 100 rank in IIT-JEE. AI engineer and one of the biggest data companies. At 23, he is valuable to be paid more annually than the cost of five such trucks, that too, in India. He's patriotic. He pays his taxes. He stays in India even though he constantly gets offers to move to the US. This is the confidence our system gives to someone who is clearly an asset to this country. All this unfairness - for a drunk truck driver. @blrcitytraffic @BlrCityPolice - tell me. I've always avoided raising fingers publicly. But what else can I do?

We were in the car, Going out to celebrate my sister's birthday Found a White Kia Seltos, HR30AE6549 1 dude, out of the sunroof.. smoking 🚬 1 guy out of the right rear window (I'm assuming drunk) After these guy noticed our car, I think they saw 4 ladies so they started coming close to our car.... following us even after I overtook them Dancing out of the car looking at us Eventually I lost them...by putting as many cars between me and that Seltos I drive an HR registered car in Dehradun, and these IDIOTS are the reason police stops me and checks my vehicle, and everything My sister is an anxiety patient, and she was literally holding her breath the whole time. FUCKING IDIOTS...!

Why are so many Indian EV automobiles catching fire ? Is this due to lower standards of Indian manufacturers ? Do EVs in other countries also catch fire like this ?

Taking cognizance of a viral video circulating on social media, the team of PS Samaypur Badli, @dcp_outernorth took swift action . The offending vehicle, which was being driven recklessly & dangerously, has been seized and the driver has been arrested for rash & negligent driving under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita & the MV Act. #DPUpdates #HelloDelhiPolice #HelloPoliceStation

Indian roads are not less than a Final destination movie

His wheel came off during the race, and the opposing team helped him put it back on. Rivals, but not enemies…

In India, Indians use sidewalk to park cars and then die walking from the roads. Over the 5-year period from 2019–2023, pedestrians accounted for about 1,50,000 deaths (nearly 20% of total fatalities) with 35,000 in 2023 itself. Vision Zero cannot succeed without safe pedestrian infrastructure. Cities that protect walkers protect everyone. 📍Barakhamba Rd, New Delhi

I was 20 when I first came to India with nothing but a restless mind and an old Enfield I bought from a friend in Delhi who taught me to ride in one dusty afternoon. He took my money, flew back to Florida, and left me with one rule: don’t hit a cow, and only ride between 2–6 a.m. if you want to survive the heat and smog. Somehow, that became a philosophy for everything that followed. I crossed the country like a kid inside a dream — Calcutta to Delhi to Rishikesh — sleeping on the bike when I had to, chasing chai stalls to stay awake, tossing the bike on trains when I could afford it. I swam in the Ganges, did yoga with elders who moved like water, bought vinyl in back-alley shops, fell in love the way only your twenties let you, and wrote long confusing emails to my mom from glowing village internet cafés. In Gujarat I stopped long enough to help with earthquake relief, eat thalis in strangers’ homes, and learn “Kem Cho” and “Majama.” India didn’t just teach me independence — it cracked me open creatively. It showed me how improvisation is its own kind of discipline, how getting lost is a form of education. I never imagined I’d be invited back years later to collaborate with artists I once watched on café computers — working with actors like SRK, making videos like “Lean On” that crossed billions of views, nearly dying during spiritual side quests in Leh and Varanasi, falling for Bollywood sweethearts, and still believing every strange turn meant something. Twenty-five years later I returned to these roads, riding nine hours a day across the Himalayas on a much newer Enfield. And then — perfectly — I ended up performing at a massive Enfield festival in Goa and celebrating afterward in a motorcycle garage, as if time folded back on itself. Two decades have changed India and me both. But every time I come back, I feel the same truth: growth happens when you surrender to the unknown, when the road teaches you more than any classroom could. India was my beginning. And somehow, it still is.

E20 is now an international disgrace? A 'Million Mile' Mercedes Benz W123 - famous for its bullet proof reliability - imported for the Himalayan Rally breaks down due to E20 petrol. British owner who faced his car breaking down calls E20 fuel rubbish, and contaminated. cartoq.com/car-life/e20-f… As a vintage vehicle owner myself, I'm appalled at the fact that the government refuses to make E5 fuel available for vehicles as an option. We should have the right to buy non-blended fuel as long as we have non-E20 cars that are fit to be on the road.

Spotted two rainbows today while driving between Solapur and Nanded. Really cool.

Have Indian municipalities forgotten that there is something called as Drainage?

If you drive manual because you like it, good for you. If you drive manual because you think driving it makes you masculine, you're an idiot and probably impotent because you need a car to prove your manhood.

The Hatchback which marked the entry of Hyundai in Indi, is no longer the favourite model from this stable anymore...SUVs drive 71% of Hyundai Motor India's Q2 volumes; diesel demand grows etauto.com/s/p3jwr5r via @ETAuto