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Back to EpisodesCab companies gave big EV orders to Tata Motors. Why don't they have more EVs in their fleets then?
Episode 221
Published 1 year, 10 months ago
Description
Even though EV sales just make up a fifth of the Tata Motors’s overall sales, the automobile-maker is still the reigning giant of India's growing EV ecosystem. It is also leading the cab industry’s shift to EVs.
Over the next 3 to 5 years, it has promised to sell at least 50, 000 EV four wheelers to cab companies. Based on the deal made over a year ago, half of them are meant for Uber. But it's been over a year since the deal with Uber and only 4000 Tata EVs are up and running in Uber's fleet?
Did Tata Motors make a miscaculation?
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