Indian brand Tata released an electric car for $10,000 USD. For people in India, I for one hope that this thing is not just for people in India, because it deserves to see the rest of the world too. Hello my friends and welcome to the channel on the electric Viking. Great to see you, welcome to all the new subscribers, welcome back. Everyone else, thanks for tuning in, thanks for subscribing, thanks for being part of the electric revolution. Tata are going to be part of the electric revolution. I did have my doubts for a little while there, they're pretty late to the game. Yeah, they've done some stuff, but really to be honest, compare India to China and obviously, you know, China has been focusing on the future of the automotive industry. They have been aware for a long time what that future was, they stuck to their guns, they took a risk and it's paying off for them. So, kudos to them for doing that because realistically, Tesla and China together have been fundamental and crucial to the world's shift to electric vehicles. Unfortunately, India on the other hand hasn't really played any significant part in that. Part of that is their protectionism. They have a very protectionist car market, people say the Chinese market is it's not really, for example, many people are not aware of the fact that you can in fact own your own car factory in China now. You don't have to have a JV partner anymore. So, any legacy automaker that wants to can own their own factory in China. Strangely, ever since that rule came into place, there hasn't been any company that's actually gone and done what Tesla did and build their own factory, which I find very weird. But anyway, the point here is $10,000 electric car is exactly what people in India need. They don't need Tesla vehicles, believe it or not, they don't need a Tesla gigafactory. Yeah, that would be nice, but the reality is India's car market is pretty small when it comes to expensive electric cars or anyway, or you know, $30,000 plus vehicles, pretty small market. But this car is perfect. In fact, this car would be perfect for about half the planet. Titan Motors has unveiled the Tiego EV. It's an all-electric model for the Indian market, hopefully it isn't just for India, as a price of 849,000 rupees. That's equivalent to around $10,700 euro or $10,000 US dollars. So, is it any good? Well, actually, it's not bad. The Tiego EV is offered with two battery sizes, 19.2 and 24 kilowatt hours. So, 24 kilowatt hours, that's a pretty good size battery pack in a small car. That will give it a range of 250 kilometers in the smaller variant and the bigger battery pack 315 kilometers. However, I don't know how that range works out in the real world because that is on the MIDC cycle, which is the modified Indian driving cycle. I find it weird the countries have their own driving cycles. I mean China, CLTC, we should all just stick to one standard. Let's just have a global standard WLTP. Let's just all stick to it. That's what I suggest. What do you think about that guys? Let me know in the comments section below. Let's, um, maybe I'll make a video about that. Let's have one driving standard. Let's get rid of all these confusing different driving standards from different countries. Anyhow, the front mounted electric motor produces 45 kilowatt in combination with the small battery, 55 kilowatt with the 24 kilowatt hour The vehicle with the larger battery costs 999,000 rupees. So, uh, yeah, what's that? One million rupees, which is 12,600 euros or around about 12,000 US dollars. Not really, you know, it's not really affordable in comparison to some Chinese cars with similar battery pack sizes, which are a bit cheaper, but it's not too far off. Depending on the equipment, the list price rises to 1.2 million rupees or 15,000 euros in its full specifications with every additional option. In the base version, both batteries can be charged only with a 3.3 kilowatt AC charger. The large battery, a 7.2 kilowatt AC charger is optionally available with a DC fast charger. You can get 110 kilometers of range in only 30 minutes. The standard charging process from 10 to 80% takes 57 minutes. So, when's it going to be available? Well, orders actually open on the 10th of October. We deliver is scheduled to begin in January 2023. The base price quoted is for the first 10,000 orders with 2000 reserved for owners of the previous Nexon EV and TIGOR EV electric models. We believe now is the right time to fast fall the on-going revolution towards the future of mobility by introducing vehicles that will encourage rapid adoption of EVs, said Shailech Chandra, Managing Director of TARDEMOTES. The TIGOR EV is not a model developed from scratch as an EV unfortunately, but it's actually a conversion of the TIGOR internal combustion engine, gasoline, powered combustion car that has actually been available for six years. It was first released back in 2016. In the future though, TARDEMOTES will use a purely electric platform for their EVs, which they're working on right now. The company presented the Avenger Concept Study, which is based on its own pure EV electric car platform. In the next two years, in addition to the Nexon EV, TIGOR EV and the new Tiago EV, another combustion engine model with electric drive is to be launched to the market. Before vehicles on pure EV platforms are planned and TARDEMOTES are actually plans on using the Volkswagen MEB platform for some of its EVs as well. Now if you're watching this channel and you're wondering yourself, who is TARDEMOTES? Never heard of them before. TARDEMOTES is an Indian multinational automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Mumbai in India. It's part of the TARDEMOTES. The company produces passenger cars, trucks, lands, coaches, buses, luxury cars, sports cars, and construction equipment. And it was founded all way back in 1945 as a manufacturer of trains or locomotives. The company actually manufactured its first commercial vehicle in 1954 in a collaboration with Mercedes-Benz and that collaboration ended in 1969. In 2008, the company launched the TARDEMOTES, the world's most affordable car at that time. And TARDEMOTES subsequently acquired the South Korean Truck Manufacturer, Daywoo Commercial Vehicles Company in 2004 and they've been the parent company and owner of Jaguar Land Rover since the company established it for the acquisition of Jaguar cars and Land Rover from Ford in 2008. TARDEMOTES' principal subsidiaries include British premium carmaker Jaguar Land Rover, the maker of Jaguar and Land Rover cars, and the South Korean Commercial Vehicle Manufacturer, Daywoo. TARDEMOTES has a construction equipment manufacturing joint venture with Hitachi and a joint venture with Stellantis, which manufactures automotive components and fair cries are and TARDEMOTES branded vehicles. On the 12th of October 2021, Private Equity Firm TPG invested $1 billion in TARDEMOTES' electric vehicle subsidiary. TARDEMOTES actually has automotive plants in a number of other countries as well. They've got vehicle plants in six cities in India as well as in Argentina, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and in Thailand. The company is currently ranked as a 265th largest in the world and it's part of the Fortune Global 500 list of the world's biggest corporations. Now right now, they don't actually make many EVs. In fact, the Indian market isn't really set up for electric cars, but I see that changing in the future. And TARDEMOTES of course is the company that needs to lead the way in India. Fortunately, it looks as though it's making a good start. $10,000 is a really good price that a lot of people in India will be up to a Ford. Of course, lots won't. But hopefully eventually they can make some even cheaper EVs. Let me know what your thoughts are in the comments section below. Thank you for watching. Bye bye.