India's electric car sales set to cross 3 lakh units for first time in 2026: Report

https://www.economictimes.com/industry/renewables/indias-electric-car-sales-set-to-cross-3-lakh-units-for-first-time-in-2026-report/articleshow/132066529.cms

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threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 69d (4 replies)

TIL

3 lakh = 300,000

finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 69d (3 replies)

300,000 what? USD, Euros?

VibeSurgeon@piefed.social · 4 pts · 69d (2 replies)

Units. Probably EVs, in this case

finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 69d (1 reply)

Ah, ok. So lakh is a shortening for 100,000 the way that -k would be a shortening for 1,000?

amelore@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 69d

Sort of, India uses lakh (10⁵) and crore (10⁷) instead of millions (10⁶). They'll also write 10,00,00,000 instead of 100,000,000.