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[Richard230]

It looks like India is getting serious with their support of electric motorcycles and scooters in order to help cut their inter-city pollution:

http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/india-2.3-billion-incentive-program-for-electric-motorcycles.htm

[protomech]

The Indian government is pouring $2.3 billion dollars into this fledging industry until the year 2020, looking for 6 to 7 million electric PTW.

i.e., an average of 300-400 USD per bike; or 18-24k INR according to google.

That might go farther than you would suspect; look at the products available from Hero Electric. Their low-speed bikes (25 km/h) are available between 30k and 45k INR.

Higher-speed bikes (45 km/h, similar to a 50cc gas scooter) are available from 45k to 50k INR.

http://heroelectric.in/products-page/

Note these are all lead acid battery packs.

I don't have any idea what the subsidies are tied to, but I hope they specify a certain minimum battery lifetime and warranty. Lead acid packs are cheap up-front but have poor cycle counts.