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Electric Cars in India

It was two decades back when Maini set up its first research plant in Bangalore. Seven years later in 2001 , they first came up with an electric car known to us as Reva . There was a lot of criticism about this car being badly shaped and unsafe for highways but it was a good package for city commuting saving our fossil fuels.It was launched at ₹2,50,000 in 2001 and now it costs a whooping ₹5,00,000 lakhs. It is not that I criticise any car , any brand or advertising for anything, I just want to bring you people the mindset of majority of people in India before buying a car. Most people prefer buying a diesel car over petrol just to obtain a good fuel efficiency , Right ? They spend more money buying a diesel compared to its petrol variant and the icing on cake is that they think to save money due to the difference in price of petrol and diesel. There are just a handful of people who buy electric cars and in fact even keep it in the option list while buying a vehicle. Even people wh