The Tata Nano’s dashboard. At roughly $2000 it stands to galvanize car ownership in India’s exploding middle class — at the expense of clean air. Its critics (other car companies and environmentalists alike) believe a car this cheap will introduce yet another generation of families to technology that’s just as dirty as anything else now and temper the growth of a clean car that would, in theory, take quite a while to reach a comparable price.
It also begins sales in Europe in 2011.
