Hello and welcome to another really really exciting episode of the fully charged show podcast.

We have focused a lot in the time we've been doing this on the development of electric vehicles in Europe in the United States, in

Australia, China, South Korea, lots and lots of different places.

Japan so loads of different places.

I'm not going to be remembering other places

we've talked about.

But quite specifically, we've done next to zero about India. And I really wanted to rectify that because what is happening in India is

Noticable. It's having an impact on the global stage and

I just thought it was a, you know, really important to try and find someone in India and I found this extraordinary woman.

And I'm going to say her name correctly now.

Chechenya Kanuri who works for the WRI India which is the

World Resources Institute and so she studies how cities, how they can be changed.

And in particular, thankfully, the ground transport systems

and how they are changing and adapting.

And just one little figure just before we start. Today in India

there will be around 5,700 electric vehicle sales per day.

365 days a year. That's the kind of change that we're seeing in India that,

and what we're talking about when I say electric vehicles,

there's generally two and three wheelers.

That's the vast majority of ground transport that people use as opposed to public transport as in buses and trucks and things.

That's the vast majority of what is being taken up. And it has had an impact, so not just India on its own,

but India, Southeast Asia, China.

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