Electric SUVs

The uptick in the M&M share price came after the company announced that its subsidiary, Mahindra Electric Automobile Limited (MEAL), has launched two new electric Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs)

Production for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) from Suzuki to begin in spring 2025

JLR cautioned last month that its push into EVs will cost more than initially planned, citing weak consumer demand

Top 5 SUVs sold in January 2024: Tata Punch sold the highest number of SUVs in India in January 2024. The company sold around 17,978 units last month

Automaker setting up exclusive electric vehicle retail showrooms under new brand identity, Tata.ev

The new engine will come with the option of a seven-speed DCT or a manual gearbox and returns 160hp

Fisker is set to make its debut in India in September 2023. It will sell only 100 units initially, and the company will also set up a manufacturing unit in India in the upcoming years

While the EQB 350 comes with significant performance enhancements, it retains the same 66.5 kWh battery pack similar to its predecessor

SUV market share in India is expected to rise from its current 43% by the end of 2024-2025 to 48%, industry estimates said

Report estimates that 4-5 million EVs will be sold across segments in 2026

Electric mobility startup Pravaig Dynamics on Friday launched a sports utility vehicle Defy, tagged at Rs 39.5 lakh (ex-showroom) to compete with the likes of Audi e-tron and Mercedes Benz EQC . The Bengaluru-based company has commenced the bookings of the model and deliveries are expected to begin from the third quarter of next year. The company aims to produce 10 lakh units by 2028 and cater to both domestic and international markets. "At the beginning we will try to address the domestic market and will look at exports in 2024," Pravaig Chief Strategy Officer Ram Divedi told PTI in an interaction here. In the long run 70 per cent of the production would go into the overseas markets, he added. Divedi said Defy is more affordable to own than other competing products in the market. The SUV comes with a driving range of around 500 km and 402 BHP power, he added. Pravaig, which has a manufacturing plant in Bengaluru, plans to commence production with a few thousand units and scale

Atto 3 can be charged from 0 per cent to 80 per cent within 50 minutes, and it has a range of 521 km. It can reach 0 to 100 km/h acceleration in 7.3 seconds

Tata Motors is actively looking at introducing four wheel drive technology in electric versions of its sports utility vehicles going ahead, according to company's passenger vehicle business head Shailesh Chandra. The home-grown auto major currently does not offer four wheel drive trims in any of its existing product range which includes models like Nexon, Harrier and Safari. The company aims to have a portfolio of ten electric products, a mix of existing nameplates and all new models, by 2025. Tata Motors is looking at models above the Nexon range as possible candidates for the four by four (4X4) upgrade. "Our focus will be to try and do that in the electric vehicles. We are going to work on this in the electric version of our future SUVs," Tata Motors Managing Director - Passenger Vehicle and Electric Vehicles - Shailesh Chandra told PTI when asked if the company is also considering four wheel drive trims in its SUV range. Some of the products in the company's expected line up of

Sales of electric cars in India will gather pace by 2025-26, Henrik Fisker said and added that the company wants to secure a first-mover advantage

SUV launches getting traction, weak rural demand a headwind for tractors

Mahindra will declare the pricing of the model closer to its launch in January

BYD has been selling the E6 MPV in the Indian market since 2021. Since its launch last year, BYD has sold 400 units of the E6

According to leaked images, the upcoming Tata Motors SUV may come with minor exterior upgrades and new features

The brands will be manifested through five e-SUVs under XUV.e8, XUV.e9, BE.05, BE.07 and BE.09

Deliveries in the first half of 2022 also advanced at a brisk pace, soaring 56 per cent to 7,573 units in the January-June period