once again the government has dithered from introducing clean technologies. The Union budget fails to provide a clear road map to promote electric vehicles (evs), especially three-wheelers. It offers sops to make any car cheap, but wilfully ignores the need to extend special fiscal support to evs. Only cosmetic changes have been introduced: excise duty has been slashed from 16 per cent to eight per cent. Another carrot dangled by the Union government is a subsidy of Rs 80,000 offered on the institutional sales of electric three-wheelers. But customs duty