
Ola Electric opens sales and service to dealer partners after five years of company-owned stores, aiming to reach smaller towns ahead of Diwali 2026.
Ola Electric has started selling through dealer partners across India, ending a five-year run of company-owned stores as the sole sales channel.
The electric two-wheeler maker said its own outlets had built the brand and created a customer base of more than one million riders. The shift follows a month-long process of signing up dealers.
Bhavish Aggarwal, chairman and managing director, said the transition reflects where the Indian EV market is now.
"We built our own stores first because trust in EVs had to be earned store by store, city by city," he said. "Now, as the category matures, our job is to bring EVs to every corner of the country, and dealer partners understand their local markets in ways no company-owned network can replicate at that scale."
Ola Electric's own stores will continue as experience centres. Dealer partners will handle sales and service in smaller towns and neighborhoods.
For dealers, Ola is offering access to a brand built over five years, a recurring service opportunity from its installed base of more than one million electric two-wheelers, and a product range that includes scooters and motorcycles.
The company expects the dealership programme to reach meaningful scale by Diwali 2026.
As part of the transition, BVR Subbu, former president of Hyundai Motor India, has rejoined Ola Electric as a senior advisor to support execution. Subbu previously served on the company's board and has been a mentor to Aggarwal.
The move puts Ola Electric alongside peers such as Ather Energy, which runs a mix of company-owned and dealer-operated outlets, and TVS Motor, which relies on dealership networks. Ola had been the only large Indian EV maker operating entirely through company-owned retail and service outlets, a model that drew criticism over service delays and after-sales issues.
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