I t was on a cold January morning earlier this year that the country’s largest carmaker, Maruti-Suzuki, took the wraps off the eVitara, its first electric vehicle, at the Auto Expo in New Delhi. Yet, it is only now, as the year comes to a close, that the company is preparing to finally launch the vehicle. So it was with a sense of irony, perhaps, that I found myself on the outskirts of Milton-Keynes in England to drive the eVitara.

This was probably exacerbated by the fact that the car that I was driving came off a production line in Hansalpur, Gujarat. Suzuki Motor Corporation, the Japanese parent company of Maruti-Suzuki has decided to make India the global production base for this important new vehicle and exports have begun wholeheartedly with cars being shipped off not only to the U

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