Ola Electric launches Ola Shakti battery even as cell manufacturing plans stall

Ola Shakti is a residential battery energy storage system powered by Ola's 4680 Bharat Cell manufactured at the Ola Gigafactory in Tamil Nadu.

Updated on: Oct 16, 2025, 12:05:56 IST

By Tushar Deep Singh

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Ola Electric Mobility Ltd. has launched its first non-automotive product, the Ola Shakti battery, at a time when its cell manufacturing plans have stalled and electric two-wheeler sales have nosedived.

Ola Electric believes it can scale Ola Shakti BESS with “zero incremental capex and R&D spends”. (@bhash/x)

Ola Shakti is a residential battery energy storage system powered by Ola's 4680 Bharat Cell manufactured at the Ola Gigafactory in Tamil Nadu. That, along with a country-wide two-wheeler sales network, will allow the company to scale the new business rapidly with “zero incremental capex and R&D spends”, according to an exchange filing on Thursday (16 October 2025).

“India doesn't face energy shortage; it faces an energy storage opportunity,” Bhavish Aggarwal, chairman and managing director at Ola Electric, said in the exchange filing. “With Ola Shakti, we are turning that opportunity into energy independence.”

Ola Shakti is available in four configurations:

1kW/1.5kWh a ₹29,999
1kW/3kWh at ₹55,999
3kW/5.2kWh at ₹1,19,999
6kW/9.1kWh at ₹1,59,999

The system can power air conditioners, refrigerators, induction cookers, farm pumps, and communication equipment, with charging times as fast as two hours and backup capacity of up to 1.5 hours on full load.

The product will be available for purchase on the Ola Electric website as well as Ola stores, with deliveries beginning Makar Sankranti 2026. Reservations start today at ₹999.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tushar Deep Singh
Tushar Deep Singh is a business journalist and digital editorial leader with 12 years of experience in financial journalism. Currently Assistant Editor at Hindustan Times, he is building the HT Business vertical and managing the newsletters for both Livemint and HT. When not in the newsroom, he can be found on a motorcycle. Throughout his career, Tushar has been instrumental in scaling digital publishing operations at some of India’s largest financial news websites. His six-year tenure at Mint—the first job—saw him plunge into online media to deliver record-breaking digital engagement for Livemint.com, including 7.2 million page views on 2017 UP Election Results day. He held fort at Livemint during a senior-level leadership transition later that year. That won him the HT Media Star Award (Bronze) in 2017 and a Certificate of Appreciation for Editorial Excellence in 2018. As the head of the digital desk at ETtech, he curated two daily, full-stack newsletters from an editorial as well as product perspective. At NDTV Profit, he transitioned from website editor to principal correspondent, reporting on the auto sector for the TV channel and website, thereby adding yet another layer to his editorial expertise. He is a post-graduate in journalism from Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai, and a graduate from St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad.Read More

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