Formula 1-inspired electric cars are coming to India and Australia

India almost doubled sales of EVs in 2017, though they account for only about 0.1 per cent of total new vehicle sales

Tycoon Sanjeev Gupta could start building Formula 1-inspired electric vehicles in India and Australia early next decade, adding automobiles to a roster of global businesses that span steel-making to banking.
 
Gupta’s GFG Alliance, which aims to model the budget, lightweight city cars on a design developed by former McLaren Racing and Brabham technical director Gordon Murray, will build EV plants as part of his worldwide push into the auto supply chain.
 
“We are talking about city cars, about small, light, very, very economic cars,” he said in an interview in Sydney. “We will launch both in India and