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What Causes Electric Scooters to Be Expensive in India?

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The one-word answer is the battery or, if you are looking for an essay, I am afraid because the answer is still the battery there is nothing else. Right now in India, an electric scooter with a decent range and power will cost you somewhere around one lack or above. The other option is to import batteries.

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Tesla And Other Tech Giants Scramble For Lithium As Prices Double

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Demand for lithium—the hottest commodity on the planet and the only commodity to show positive price movement in 2015—is poised to continue on its upward trajectory, becoming the world’s new gasoline and earning the moniker of “White Petroleum”.

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Opinion: Will Lithium Be Our Next Energy Crisis?

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EV Numbers Are Growing, But Their Batteries Need a Key Mineral. The electric vehicle (EV) revolution has begun and the race is on to lock down the U.S. EVs run on lithium-ion batteries. Countries in the western world are phasing out gasoline-powered cars and rushing to lock down their lithium supplies. will have 3.2

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