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by waps 4835 days ago
The quality of the English used on that site really inspires confidence in it's accuracy :

"The car which sells for Rs 5.96 lakh in Delhi (ex-showroom)" -> ex-showroom ? What's that ? A swimming pool ?

"It can receive emergency charge with a text message." -> Power over SMS ?

The images are obviously drawings, not even renders, further inspiring confidence. The only references to it are to academic experiments. Not to dish on academici here, very smart people, though not always perfectly accurate with "on the market next year" predictions.

It doesn't seem to be vaporware though : http://www.motorbeam.com/cars/mahindra-e2o/mahindra-reva-e2o...

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In India, car dealerships are called showrooms. Read that as "ex-dealer", or "from the dealer". It's just a straight Latin-to-English thing.