Delhi saw a deluge of battery operated rickshaws on her roads during the Commonwealth Games. They were all imported from China and assembled in NCR. After the games the Delhi govt didn't kind of ignored them for a bit and then banned them for a bit because their numbers were growing and they didn't fit into any definition neatly enough to regulate them. I think they are happily plying 6 to 8 people on some roads of Delhi right now.
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Some of these things have made their way all over UP and one can see them in cities like Muzaffarnagar and the humble tehsil where yours truly is currently stationed.
The problem with these things is they need high quality power (read no crazy voltage fluctuations) for a good 8 hours to charge their batteries. And at the risk of sounding like a parochial chauvinist, where is the electricity in UP? And hence the stage is set of the Great Indian Jugaad to do its thing and voila! We have something that has the horsepower to carry two, maybe three people saddled with some rudimentary seating and carrying a minimum of four people, not including the driver.
Long live the Revolution.
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