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Ola Electric Showcases Autonomous Tech - Reveals Future Battery & Vehicle Plans
Indian electric vehicle manufacturer Ola Electric today showcased its upcoming autonomous electric vehicle tech while also revealing more details about the company's future plans.
Indian electric vehicle manufacturer Ola Electric today showcased its upcoming autonomous electric vehicle tech while also revealing more details about the company's future plans.
Earlier this year, Ola Electric had revealed that it was working on autonomous vehicle technology. And today, Ola Electric finally gave the world a sneak peek at its work into the tech. Ola showcased the tech on a golf cart and revealed that an autonomous car would be available in 2 years time. Ola stated that the new autonomous vehicle would arrive in around 2 years time.
Ola Electric's prototype autonomous vehicle had an array of sensors in the form of 3 Lidar sensors, a single GPS sensor and one camera for object detection. The autonomous driving tech showed off in the prototype vehicle by Ola Electric included Emergency brake assist, auto driving, crash avoidance, automatic braking, and auto speed control.
As we toured the Ola Futurefactory, the electric vehicle manufacturer spilled a few secrets about the company's future especially the battery tech. Ola stated that it is looking into making its own batteries. The company CEO Bhavish Aggarwal stated that Ola is looking into battery cell manufacturing and would soon start work on building its own cell manufacturing facility with a capacity of up to 50GWh.
Ola currently uses lithium-ion cells, imported in from South Korea. LG Chem makes these cells and every battery pack currently features a total of 224 cells (112 on each side).
Each cell used in the battery pack weighs 67 grams and uses Nickel Manganese Cobalt (NMC) chemistry. NMC cells have a high specific energy or power which have made them quite popular for use in electric vehicles. LFP batteries are known for their long life cycle and are becoming a more popular choice for use in EVs around the world. Ola has stated that it would consider looking at LFP cells for lower powered variants.
Ola Electric uses thermal interface material based plastics for cell placement in the battery pack. This thermal interface material play a crucial part in ensuring efficient thermal management. The thermal interface material based plastic transfers heat between two or more solid surfaces and helps dissipate the intensive heat energy produced by discharging and recharging batteries.
Ola Electric also confirmed that Move OS 2, the operating system that controls the digital display in its S1 Pro scooter and helps enable a host of features on the electric vehicle, is being tested right now. Move OS 2 will soon be active on customer vehicles through an update.
Ola Electric CEO Bhavish Agarwal also revealed that the EV manufacturer would be reintroducing the Ola S1 scooter into the Indian market later this year. THe S1 will be reintroduced as a lower priced variant in the Ola Electric's scooter lineup. The electric two-wheeler manufacturer also confirmed that it is working on new products including an electric motorcycle.
Thoughts On Ola Electric's Future Plans
Ola Electric today showed the world its plans for the future and to say it looks bright would be an understatement. From autonomous tech to more electric vehicles to the news that it would be looking into making its own lithium ion battery packs, today was a day of bombastic announcements from India's most disruptive EV manufacturer. If the company does go about doing what it plans to do at its current pace, we sure could have an Ola Electric revolution on our hands in the very near future.
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