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  Introduction An EV two-wheeler brand publishes an ex-showroom price. A prospective buyer in Pune pays a different total than one in Chennai, and neither pays the published number. The gap is not small and it is not constant. Across a sampled set of cities, the spread between the lowest and highest on-road total for the same variant reaches [DATA: observed on-road price spread for one variant across sampled cities, date stated]. Anyone benchmarking EV two-wheeler pricing from published ex-showroom figures is benchmarking a number that no transaction uses. The number that matters is city-resolved, has multiple components that each vary by state, and steps discontinuously whenever a subsidy scheme changes. This makes automotive pricing structurally different from retail pricing. In retail, one price per listing per location. Here, one price is a computed stack whose components are exposed by different sources with different reliability, and the stack must be captured component-wise ...