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 exists 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 is—the timing of this seems… 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 is the definition of a self-goal.

So why do it?

Praveen Gopal Krishnan explains in this week's edition of The Nutgraf. Tune in.

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This is the audio edition of The Ken’s popular weekend newsletter, The Nutgraf. Every Saturday, author and host Praveen Gopal Krishnan reads aloud his latest edition, where he synthesizes and tells a story about the most interesting thing that happened that week in India’s business, tech and startup scene.