Watch: Electric Bus Fails to Climb Steep Hill, Passengers Forced to Jump Ship as It Begins Reversing

A video circulating on social media showed an electric public transportation bus in Maharashtra, 🇮🇳India, failing to climb up a hairpin turn on a hilly road near Sinhagad Fort.

The bus was operated by Indian state-run Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited and was ferrying regular passengers and tourists journeying from the city of Pune to the fort.

Footage of the incident shared by TV9 Marathi showed the vehicle’s engine exerting as much power as it could muster to help the bus do the climb.

However, despite the driver’s efforts to move the vehicle forward, the bus began reversing involuntarily, the video showed.

Sensing that the vehicle was inching backward, the passengers got off the bus.

With the vehicle weighing less without the passengers’ weight, the driver eventually managed to make it past the hairpin bend toward the video’s final minutes.

According to reporting from automobile blog CarToq, some of the travelers who had to get out had to walk to the fort on foot, since the electric bus could not bear the weight of all travelers.