Erin Wong reports every day, Abhishek Thadi rides his electric scooter to work at a tech park in Bengaluru, India — at times, joyriding aimlessly. Thanks to his charger at home, he said, his trips cost a mere 25 rupees (31 U.S. cents) per 75 kilometers of road. He can speed along the airport expressway at 80 kilometers per hour, or take a trip to Mysuru, a neighboring town, charging once along the way. “The future is here,” Thadi said to Rest of World. “I was expecting that this kind of performance would be way off by many years.”
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