<span style="color: #222222;">Over six thousand six hundred electric vehicles have been recalled by three manufacturing units after incidents of fire involving Electric Vehicles (EVs) were reported at some places. Minister of State for Heavy Industries Krishna Pal Gurjar informed the Loka Sabha today.<br />''<br />''In a written reply to a question, the Minister said, there is no downtrend in the sale of EVs after a few fire incidents reported in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. He further said, the Ministry of Road and Highways has set up a committee with independent experts from the DRDO, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, and Naval Science and Technological Laboratory, Visakhapatnam to assert the reasons behind the fire incidents.<br />''<br />''The Minister further said, show cause notices have been issued to the CEOs and MDs of the concerned manufacturers of the EVs which met with fire incidents.</span><br />