In the United States, luxury-car buyers are snapping up Teslas and other electric cars that cost more than Rs 47,82,738 ($60,000), and even relatively cheap models cost more than Rs 1,987,972 ($25,000).
In India, those are all out of reach of the vast majority of families, whose median income is just Rs 1,91,309 ($2,400). But an electric vehicle movement is taking place nonetheless — not on four wheels, but on two and three.
Electric mopeds and three-wheeled rickshaw taxis that sell for as little as Rs 79,712 ($1,000) are zipping along India’s congested urban thoroughfares, cheered on by environmentalists and the government as a way to clear some of the oppressive smog.
