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The England cricketer-turned-TV presenter sustained serious facial and rib injuries when the three-wheeler car he was driving for the BBC motoring programme rolled over in 2022.

It is as Cockney as a Pearly Queen in a three-wheeler Del Boy van.

The aerodynamic design and light fiberglass body — only 900 pounds — also gave the three-wheeler less than half the drag of conventional cars at the time, according to car news site Autoevolution.com.

Still, Ghate thinks that India’s swift move to smaller electric vehicles can serve as a template for other emerging economies that are two- and three-wheeler nations, like Indonesia, the Philippines and some African countries.

More than 90% of its 2.3 million electric vehicles are the cheaper and more popular two- or three-wheelers — that’s motorbikes, scooters and rickshaws — and over half of India’s three-wheeler registrations in 2022 were electric, according to an IEA report released in April.