New Delhi [India], April 08: India’s EV story was supposed to be simple. Cleaner air, smarter tech, fewer fuel bills, you know, the usual pitch. And for a while, that’s exactly how it was sold. Almost idealistic. Almost too neat.
But then reality walked in. Loud, unpredictable, and carrying a barrel of crude oil.
Because here’s the thing, India doesn’t just consume oil, it depends on it. Heavily. Roughly 85% of its crude oil needs are imported. That’s not a small vulnerability, that’s… well, a structural pressure…

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