India eyes solar energy for electric vehicles

India’s government has approved a new $4bn (£2.5bn) plan to spur the production of electric cars over the next eight years.

It includes an ambitious target of producing 6 million units of electric vehicles by 2020.

But with choked roads and an already overloaded energy grid, will this next generation of electric vehicles catch on in India any time soon?

Shilpa Kannan travelled to Bangalore, to find out more.

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