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Batteries: The big Eelectric Vehicle challenge

Tesla's business success is encouraging several manufacturers to look seriously at the electric car market as a profitable business opportunity

Overdrive|Oct 07, 2016, 18:27:01 IST

Mercedes-Benz recently announced plans to introduce an entire line-up of electric cars to rival Tesla and BMW, especially seeing the former’s success in the electric car market. The Tesla business model is truly amazing; in a spectacular coup of sorts, the very progressive company took the concept of an everyday car (good looking and not future fantastic), mated it to an electric drivetrain and unleashed it upon the world. Before Tesla, electric car concepts that emerged at motor shows around the world resembled something straight out of...

First Published:Oct 07, 2016, 18:27:01 IST

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