Regarding components mainly battery & BMS sytem being imported that's true. But its a very good decision .China has poured billions into developing ev ecosystem and some of the brands have made it rest of them are bust or government bails out. Many of the european car companiess to have tieups with them and they also tried own and are in dire situation. VW closing their German factories.
Mahindra & tata were at risk of being bust .Now tata definitely is .tata didnt go all out and made a proper ev with complete stack .
M&M has a superb sales record from the moment the launched xuv700 suv and other models except their ev xuv400 .But they had already begun a global ev skateboard "INGLO -INd for the globe" platform and created it using profits of their SUV profit money.
M&M sells it cars in Latin America .South Africa & Australia . Now convert the pricing of this car to their respective currency .It becomes affordable proper SUV ev which is not Chinese and not a tesla neither an expensive European car .And it achieves most of the attribute. So they are not only eyeing indian market but also overseas and using economy of scale ing price low. so a win win. VW/Skoda too were intrested to use M&M`s INGLO to manufature VW group ev cars in india.
what i liked abuut this cars is they understood is Indians wont buy an ev without a range . its not about a range thing or charging anxiety its about pricing of fast chargers .if you pickup nexon ev and plan a mumbai pune return trip it with one day city stay and some loitering around you cannot do it without external fast charging which when calculated becomes expensive than even a diesel/ petrol car. so no point of an ev .With a range of 500 - 600 you could return home and slow charge and for longer trip you can fast charge at at the speeds of 140 kw/h and top up the car from 20 to 80 percent.
what it will do to existing tatas ev ,upcoming ev price cut price cut and restrict them below 18 lakh if smaller battery and less feature or it will be dead on arrival
Maruti evx too will take a beating because its barebones and Hyundai creta ev too is ICE converted
Regarding design its prettier version of ugly cybertruck .
Regarding the designer .he is the designer of nexon /xuv700 and and all the new Mahindra with atrocious external design worst handles . To Add salt to the injury mahindra owns Legendrary
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