Nepal, April 12 -- The cabinet's decision on April 5 to make legal arrangements to enable the conversion of Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicles to Electric Vehicle (EV) marks a turning point in the country's rapidly progressing EV landscape, finally dismantling the archaic legal barriers of the 1992 Motor Vehicle Act to permit the ICE-to-EV conversion. If we look back at the history in brief and keep aside the first drive-train conversion that happened in 1993, when Bikram Tempo was converted into Safa Tempo, engineers at a private firm, TheeGo, had converted a Daewoo Matiz and presented it in the NADA Auto Show in 2019. Thereafter, institutions like Kathmandu University and the National Innovation Centre have been demonstrating con...