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India’s electric rickshaws
Little-known e-rickshaw companies like YC Electric are at the forefront of the country’s EV revolution.
At a small factory just north of Delhi, a welder named Ram Baran spends each day training his coworkers in metal cutting, molding, and shaping bodies of three-wheeler electric vehicles. Each month, this upskilled team at the factory in Sonipat — 40 kilometers from New Delhi — produces bodies and chassis for nearly 5,000 three-wheeler EVs, locally known as e-rickshaws, for the New Delhi-based YC Electric, India’s second-largest manufacturer in the segment. At YC, meanwhile, there has been a concerted effort to bring in domestic companies to upskill staff and provide material, the Sonipat plant’s general manager, Vidya Sagar Singh, told Rest of World.
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