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So Super it’s unreal?

On a showroom floor in India’s westernmost state of Gujarat sits the prototype for a car made at a local production plant and expected to be commercially available early next year.

The non-air conditioned, four-seater model is expected to be priced at Rs. 85,000 to 1 lakh ($1,748 USD to $2,057 USD).

And it’s an electric car, one that’s said to run on either nickel-metal hydride or lithium-ion batteries.

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