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How many vehicles does Ola Electric actually sell in a month?

Nobody knows the answer.

In February 2025, the firm sold 25,000 scooters, but only 8,390 were registered on the government’s VAHAN portal. This discrepancy existed due to a renegotiation of contracts with two firms that carry out registration of vehicles for the EV maker.

If you are a public company in the business of making automobiles and you’re in the middle of a bad narrative—as Ola Electric has been—the timing of this was… unnecessary. Most people are already spooked about your company’s performance. Now, you’re messing around with the one reliable source they had to track how you’re doing and creating room for all kinds of conspiracy theories to take root.

For Ola Electric, this was the definition of a self-goal.

So why do it?

Praveen Gopal Krishnan explains in this episode of The Nutgraf. Tune in.

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