In India, the place an growing variety of customers aspire to personal larger automobiles to deal with the nation’s notoriously potholed roads and unhealthy visitors, automakers are betting on low-cost battery-powered SUVs to seize the budding electrical car market.

At the nation’s main auto present in New Delhi earlier this month, there was a brand new breed of EVs taking middle stage, with predominately international firms seeking to muscle in on the nascent electrical scene. In a marked shift in rhetoric, native auto bosses have been additionally excitedly speaking up the sector’s prospects.