[alephnerd]

EV Car Laws are a classic example of this.

The only major EV Car manufacturer in India is Tata Motors. They lobbied the Indian government to set EV Car GST at 5% instead of 50% like it is for other cars.

When Toyota India (and it's partners Maruti Suzuki and Hyundai India) started considering manufacturing Hybrids [0], Tata went on a lobbying blitz to prevent Plug-in Hybrids from getting similar tax treatment as EVs [1].

The Indian government ended up siding with Toyota [2]

Oh, btw. This entire story only happened in the past 3 months.

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/toyota...

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tata-m...

[2] - https://auto.hindustantimes.com/auto/cars/nitin-gadkari-bats...

[Karrot_Kream]

Yes I'm aware sadly. Have a friend of a friend involved in the 3 wheeler EV business in India. Not going to drop names because it's a small world.

[alephnerd]

Oof. Best of luck to them. I'm curious how they differentiate themselves from the Jugaad three-wheeler manufacturers. That seems to be where a lot of the demand and growth has been from what I've seen.