I was in Vientiane, Laos a couple of months ago and got chatting to a taxi driver. A friend of his bought an EV and after a couple of years, the battery died and the price to replace it was apparently 200,000 baht, a sum his friend could not even dream of and therefore the EV was rendered useless, a big source of stress and disappointment.
EVs are the product of an ideology, which, as all ideologies, is full of contradictions. It is gaining traction in Western countries because of government subsidies (Macron, for instance, has implemented a scheme where the average French household can lease one for €100 per month), but I am not surprised that it should quickly hit the wall of reality in the third world.