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I don't know why India doesn't take climate change and pollution seriously...
Like, very few countries take it seriously enough. But China and India are feeling it more than almost any other country...
And they just don't give a shit.
Because it's a prisoners dilemma. They don't have the money to suddenly buy a billion Teslas and trillion solar panels so either they burn the coal they have because everyone else is too, or they just give up trying to become an advanced economy while everyone else keeps polluting.
In either case tens of millions of people die on the subcontinent, but in one of them at least they get to improve their economy.
Why buy Teslas when BYD is cheaper than ICE vehicles?
And China's solar panels are cheap as fuck.
Americans can't buy either tho, but that's because both our parties want corporations headquartered here to make those sales so it counts to GDP.
I don't think India does that
I can answer that as an Indian casually in the market for an EV. The infrastructure isn't really as good as western countries. Charging stations aren't easy to find outside of major highways, and they aren't as visible.
For intra-city users:
EVs are considerably more expensive than ICEs and India is a very price-sensitive market. The biggest successes for EVs here are Tata Nexons, for example. The ICE version starts at almost half the price of the EV.
Buyers will compare and run the numbers and unless you use it a lot, it can go either way. That combined with the iffy infrastructure is enough to make many people just go for ICE right now, in the hope that their next car will be an EV, when prices come down and tech is next-gen.
It is bound to happen. Prices are falling and more EVs are on the road, but it hasn't reached critical mass yet.
Also, BYDs are actually quite expensive here compared to home grown solutions. Check the Tata EV range out.
Another factor that you're overlooking is that India has a huge market of 2 wheelers, 3 wheelers and mini trucks. That's a space where EVs make a lot of sense. They pay for themselves the more you use them.
So in food delivery, logistics, courier services etc., there's already a very noticeable shift in motion, and that's promising.