Tata Motors wins bid to sell 10,000 electric cars

Home-grown auto major Tata Motors could soon become the biggest manufacturer of electric cars as the company on Friday won a government-administered tender to sell 10,000 electric variants of the Tigor, its sedan car. 

Priced at Rs 10.16 lakh, it will be the company’s first electric car, supplies of which will begin in November. All the cars will be supplied by October next year.

Tata Motors emerged as the lowest bidder in the tender floated by Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL), a joint-venture comprising four government-owned power sector entities — NTPC, Power Grid, Power Finance Corp and Rural Electrification Corporation. It was