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By all measures, India is a country ripe for an electric car revolution. Its cities are super-polluted. Its roads are choked with every type of vehicle imaginable. You would think that the small, fuel-efficient, battery-powered Reva would be the perfect solution.

But only 3,500 Reva cars have been sold worldwide so far, a fraction of the number that India’s biggest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki, sells every month. India is the world’s biggest maker of electric cars — at least currently — but Reva’s home country has simply not adopted the battery-powered car.