Bhavish Aggarwal & Ankit Bhati on Infrastructure Building

Ola Electric was spun out in 2017 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of ANI Technologies, Ola Cabs' parent, with the initial mission of decarbonising Ola's own cab fleet. The Nagpur pilot of May 2017 — charging stations and procured e-cabs, e-buses and e-rickshaws — was the first credible Indian experiment in mass electric mobility by a private platform.

In December 2020 Ola committed about 2,400 crore rupees (around 324 million dollars) to build what it called the world's largest two-wheeler factory on a 500-acre site in Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu. The Future Factory deployed automated robots in welding, painting and battery lines, and made headlines by staffing its manufacturing floor entirely with women — an unusual gendered labour choice in Indian auto manufacturing.

In 2024 Ola migrated from Microsoft Azure to its own Krutrim cloud, and from Google Maps to an in-house Ola Maps built on the 2021 GeoSpoc acquisition. The vendor-replacement programme was positioned by Bhavish as India-first infrastructure independence — a strategic and reputational signal as much as a cost play.