Chetan Maini is the pioneer of the electric car in India. His Reva was an iconic, cutely designed four-seater packed with technological innovations. It was a frontrunner in clean mobility — admired and feted all over the world but ignored in India where traditional car companies called the shots with policymakers despite their dirty engines.
Maini was roughly two decades ahead of his time. The Reva went from being a great little start-up offering transformational possibilities to limping into collaboration with the Mahindras. Basically, lack of government support in India killed the Reva.
Now, as pollution levels soar. . .
