In early August, the usually staid TIME got poetic with this headline: EV Market Gets Another Jolt $5k Price Cut on Chevy Volt Just another bit of excitement in a stream of stories from the global electric car market. Chevrolet's Volt hybrid was stagnating, but the $35k base price, down $5k, on the 2014 model will change that - and shake up the US car market a bit more. (With tax credits, the Volt is down to $27.5k, or about Rs 17 lakh.) This is not the story of an American car's pricetag. It's the story of the last frontier for mobility - from transportation, to mobile phones, tablets and laptops. And that frontier, is, of course, the battery.
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