When Ashwini Tiwary, one of the founders of the startup Autobot India, moved to Pune from Delhi in 2020, he saw a few cars on the road that carried green number plates, indicating that those were battery-operated vehicles. In a year, the number of green plates has grown to the extent that it does not surprise him anymore.
But, when he visited his village in Bihar last month around the time COP26 was taking place in Glasgow, Tiwary was taken aback when he came across four electric scooters. “I am convinced that there is a rising awareness about electric two-wheelers and four-wheelers across India and a rapid adoption of this technology despite anxieties about range and cost,” he says.
