Forget Teslas, India’s EV revolution is happening on two wheels
Electric scooters are spreading fast
Even licence plates contribute to the feast of colour that is an Indian city. Private vehicles have plates with black characters on white; commercial ones, black writing on yellow; rental vehicles, yellow on black; prized diplomatic plates are white and blue. And in the past few months a fourth colour scheme has become a lot more common: white on green. That is the licence plate allocated to electric vehicles (EVs), and they are suddenly everywhere—especially in the form of two- and three-wheelers.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Two wheels good”
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