Ola Electric IPO price band set at ₹72-₹76 per share: Check timeline, issue size and key details

The initial public offering (IPO) of electric two-wheeler company Ola Electric Mobility, which will launch on August 2, has set a price band of ₹72-₹76 per share, with eligible employees getting ₹7 per share discount in the IPO bids. The public offer will conclude on August 6.

The IPO is a mix of fresh issue of equity shares worth ₹5,500 crore and an offer-for-sale component of 8.49 crore shares by promoters and investors. Under the OFS, Ola Electric founder and CEO Bhavish Aggarwal will offload nearly 3.8 crore shares.

The bidding for anchor investors will take place on August 1, according to the red herring prospectus (RHP).

Investors such as Nomura, Fidelity and Norway's Norges Bank and mutual funds like HDFC, UTI, SBI, and Nippon India are expected to place bids in Ola's IPO anchor book, news agency Reuters reported.

How will Ola Electric utilise the IPO proceeds?

According to its prospectus, Ola Electric Mobility plans to utilise ₹1,227.6 crore out of the proceeds of its ₹5,500 crore public issue on capacity expansion of its cell manufacturing plant to 6.4 GWh from 5 GWh.

The company is also looking to use ₹1,600 crore from the fresh fund on research and product development, another ₹800 crore will be deployed to repay debts and ₹350 crore for organic growth initiatives.

In its RHP, OEML said that Phase 1 (a) and Phase 1 (b) of the set-up and expansion of the Ola Gigafactory at Krishnagiri district in Tamil Nadu will be funded from internal accruals and long-term borrowings availed by its arm Ola Cell Technologies Pvt Ltd (OCT).

Phase 1 (a) is expected to be completed by March 2024 and the gigafactory will have a capacity of 1.4 GWh. In the Phase 1 (b), the capacity will be increased to 5 GWh by October 2024. These will be funded from internal accruals and long-term borrowings availed by OCT, it added.

Phase 2 of the expansion envisions scaling up the capacity to 6.4 GWh by April 2025 and taking it up to 20 GWh by the second quarter of 2026.

In the details of the objectives of the IPO, the company said a portion of the proceeds will be used for capital expenditure to be incurred by OCT for the expansion of the capacity of the cell manufacturing plant from 5 GWh to 6.4 GWh.

OEML, which had on August 15, 2023, announced a line-up of electric motorcycles -- Cruiser, Adventure, Roadster and Diamondhead -- and expects to begin delivery of the motorcycles in the first half of fiscal 2026.

On future product launch plans, the company said, "We plan to further launch affordable mass market Ola S1 models, including E2Ws (electric two-wheelers) targeted at the personal, business-to-business and last-mile delivery segment by the first half of fiscal 2025".

"We also plan to commence delivery of our motorcycles, which we announced on August 15, 2023, by the first half of fiscal 2026. We plan to further expand our product portfolio to also cover mass market motorcycles to capture a broader base of consumers across different product types and price points in the long run."

Last month, Ola Electric got the market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India's (SEBI's) approval to launch its IPO.