Electrifying Update

Tata Motors has given the Nexon.ev a big update. Not so much in terms of looks though the car now looks contemporary, not so much in terms of the basic drivetrain and configuration though the vehicle is a bit more efficient but in terms of the electronics and the look, feel and operability of the interiors where the SUV has taken a quantum leap. We were in Pune to try out the car just before its launch 

- Yogendra Pratap

The Nexon.ev is the most successful electric vehicle in the country and that when it was a straight conversion of the existing ICE Nexon without too many of the added advantages that an EV architecture can provide. Tata Motors or rather, the company’s electric vehicle manufacturing subsidiary, Tata Passenger Electric Mobility or TPEM has now given the Nexon EV a thorough makeover along with the one given to the ICE Nexon but with many differences so as to not only create a separate and distinct identity for the EV but also to realise some of the multitude of benefits that come with an EV for the end user including a major upgrade to the human-machine interface.

On the outside while the Nexon.EV has undergone the same cosmetic changes as the Nexon ICE vehicle, there are some eye catching changes that are different including the light strips that stretch right across the width of the vehicle, both in the front and the rear. In the front, it is the DRL that connects below the DRLs of the ICE vehicle right across the lower lip of the bonnet while on the rear it is the chrome strip under the rear windscreen that has made way to a light strip connecting the X-factor signature of the tail lamps in both the ICE and EV versions. However the front for the EV is even more distinct with what the Tata Motors call the proud nose that is complemented by diagonal slat like lines under the headlamps and the central part of the front air dam.