At 500kms Range (IDC) Ola Electric RoadsterX+ is the cheapest-long-distance eVehicle in the WORLD… what do you expect a Mercedes?

In comparison… Enfield Flying Flea costs 3 Lakhs with just 100kms real world range (150kms IDC).

Ola is for the masses… not for the class-ist.

RoadsterX+ is NOT an ASPIRATIONAL product… but it’s a product YOU CANNOT DO WITHOUT … if you travel 200+kms daily… especially those into Bike-Taxi… it saves Rs 15,000 on fuel per mth.

This means that if you are earning Rs 30,000 doing bike-taxi… then with RoadsterX+ you can earn 45,000 per month… This fact cannot be ignored… that there is no other Petrol or Electric 2-Wheeler in India can do.

As for the build even we don’t really like the Roadster design… but what to do… Roadster is the best India has… inspite of having big Petrol 2 Wheeler manufacturers they are still to sell an electric 2Wheeler.

(Flying Flea is delivering in May… so was Autocar review a favor for Enfield? Just wondering?)

we also cannot understand why Bhavish lets FEMALE designers build a bike.

Of course, it would have been great if these women designers at Ola proved us wrong… but till now they have not… they are still in Kindergarten… learning their alphabets.

Also their cold almost-uninterested presentation on stage also doesn’t show any deep connect or involvement with the bike… maybe it’s because of the huge variety of products… but that connect is not there.

Maybe Bhavish needs to have FEMALE DESIGNERS for Scooter… and MALE DESIGNERS for Bikes … and have them compete with each other as to who builds the better product… the competition will bring more out of the team.

As for the fit, finish and flaws… (RoadsterX made its 1^st delivery in almost 1 year ago on 23 May 2025). It is still a very raw product and in its initial stage... and Ola Electric is a first time manufacturer… at least Ola Roadster model is much better than Enfield model of 1901.

Roadster is the 1^st Ola Motorcycle model. Its not a bad product at all.. nor is it a great product. At the most it is an average product. But as new versions come in Ola will better its quality as we can now see… the Gen 3 Scooter is much more better than Gen 1 Scooter.

At the end of the day… Ola RoadsterX+ might not be a suave product to flaunt around like an iPhone… but RoadsterX+ does travel above 250kms per day… which no other electric 2Wheeler can in India.

There is no doubt that RoadsterX+ WILL NOT HAVE A COMPETITOR (500kms IDC range) for a VERY LONG TIME.

Moats that Ola Electric have built which others will take a long time to compete against:

1. Manufacturing Batteries

2. Building Long Range eScooter (300+km IDC Range)

3. Building eMotorcycles

4. Building eMotorcycles above 500kms (IDC) range.

Some of the comments in the comments section on the video were:

Q1. Ola is giving discount on its scooter. It is giving away a Rs 200,000 eMotorcycle at Rs 100,000. Giving such discounts will be detrimental for Ola.

A. Not True. Unlike other vehicle makers Ola has multiple range scooters at different range and different prices… some of them are:

• 9kWh       (500 kms range)      Motorcycle      Rs 2,00,000 (190,000)

• 5.2kWh    (320 kms range)      Scooter            Rs 1,80,000

• 3kWh       (176 kms range)      Scooter            Rs 1,00,000

• 2.5kWh    (140 kms range)      Motorcycle      Rs 1,00,000

• 2kWh       (108 kms range)      Scooter            Rs 85,000

The truth is that unlike other companies Ola Electric can afford to give major discounts because of the profits generated from its in-house battery manufacturing.

Q2. Ola’s battery manufacturing speed is very slow. It has manufactured very little batteries till date.

A1. Ola battery manufacturing was delayed and Ola vehicles with in-house batteries reached the market only in March 2026 although it was supposed to reach the market by Sankrati (14 Jan 2026).  So the benefit of in-house battery will become visible only in Q1 Results (expected in July 2026). Ola Electric is just 1 month into battery manufacturing at-scale.. speed of manufacturing should pick up sooner than later.

Q3. Ola Electric has a lot of service issue and Ola is not providing solutions!

A3. Ola Gen 1 and Gen 2 had a lot of the service issues as they were early products.

Gen1: had issues with its front fork joint… Ola worked on this and brought out a stronger joint as a free upgrade to all existing Ola vehicle. The front single arm was replaced with a conventional telescopic front-fork. All Gen2 models come with telescopic front-fork.

Gen2: had issues with loose VCU connectors and dangling wires. Due to this the scooter used to stop suddenly when the connector got disconnected. This froze the touch screen and it went blank. Since all controls were through the touch screen the scooter had to be towed every time this issued happened. They would take it to the showroom repair it… next day same thing used to happen.

The problem was simple… it was as simple as the TV-Remote-Syndrome… just like the TV Remote required a simple tap to get reconnected the VCU too required a disconnect-reconnect tap.

This required a simple restarting of VCU main switch. Most people were unaware of this and did not have tools to open the front apron to restart the VCU.

Ola has rectified a LOT of those issues by bring in Gen3 which has much lesser problems than Gen1 and Gen2.

Gen3: Due to the above problems of Gen2… today all Gen3 models come with a physical key to start-off the vehicle. The control through the touch screen can now be bypassed with the Key FOB. Gen3 is the most stable version. It too issues, but they are far less and less serious than in Gen1 and Gen2.

Gen4 is expected anytime soon and would be overcoming the limitations of Gen3. Flat footboard battery will replace the existing curved “banana” battery. With this upgrade Ola will fully transition to an Indian vehicle from the Dutch EterGo. Most of the problems were due to the Dutch design which was meant for smother pothole free roads and not for pothole filled Indian roads.

This shows that Ola has been continuously trying to upgrade the quality and performance of its scooter. Today it solves 80% of the problems the same day. Parts are now becoming more and more available.

Of course things could still improve and will slowly improve rather than quickly improve… but the process to EVOLVE and provide better service will continue… because without providing service it will not be able to succeed.

Why would anyone go through the trouble of taking a loan, putting up a plant, installing machinery, employing labour, manufacturing multiple products … yet not provide service? It just doesnt make sense.

Ola could be slow to respond…not respond it will.