Every week, India registers thousands of new electric vehicles. And every week, the conversation around them is almost identical — range, charging speed, price. Fair questions, all of them. Yet one almost never gets asked: what are core materials in these vehicles? That question, I would argue, is as important as any of the others. Not just for engineers. For everyone. That gap in conversation stayed with me. We have done a remarkable job in India of building public excitement around electric mobility.