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23 electric models · cars, bikes and scooters
Every battery-electric model in the MotoSutra catalogue — 23 vehicles with claimed range, battery capacity, charging time and ex-showroom price, from ₹1.15 lakh upward.
An EV decision is four numbers: claimed range, battery capacity, charging time and the on-road gap to the petrol equivalent. Each model page below carries all four, and every figure without a named source document on that page is an unverified MotoSutra estimate, marked as such — not a certified OEM claim.
18 models in the catalogue, each with range, battery and charging figures beside the price.
1 model in the catalogue, each with range, battery and charging figures beside the price.
4 models in the catalogue, each with range, battery and charging figures beside the price.
Scored on the same seven axes as combustion models, with efficiency standing in for mileage.
Explainers and news
Range testing, charging standards and the subsidy rules that move the price.
Explainer 4 min
Two cars can list the same bhp and feel completely different, because power is a rate and the rpm it arrives at is the rest of the sentence. What bhp measures, where brochures pad it, and which part of the band you actually use in India.
Explainer 4 min
Every electric listing promises you charge for free by braking. Here is the arithmetic behind the promise, why the recovery figure on the brochure and the one in Bengaluru traffic are different numbers, and what the one-pedal habit is actually worth.
Explainer 5 min
Compressed natural gas is the cheapest way to run a petrol engine in India and the least discussed. Here is how a factory kit works, who actually saves money, and what you pay for it in space, performance and hassle.
Explainer 4 min
No clutch, no gearbox, no exhaust. Here is what actually sits between the charging socket and the wheel in the electric cars and scooters on our catalogue, where the single-speed drivetrain runs out of leverage, and which parts genuinely fail.
Explainer 5 min
The EV question is not ideological, it is a sum: per-kilometre cost from the battery and the pump, the discount between claimed and real range, the charge-point you actually own, and the purchase premium that has to be eaten by the savings. Here is the working, using figures our catalogue records.
Explainer 7 min
Why an engine needs a gearbox at all, how the first transmissions moved gears physically into mesh, what constant mesh changed, how a synchroniser ring brings two rotating parts to the same speed before they meet, and why reverse is still a separate problem.
Explainer 6 min
What happens between the kickstarter lever and the first combustion stroke. How a helical spline and a freewheel turn a kick into a crank, why a starter motor needs a one-way clutch, where the tens of thousands of volts at the plug come from, and what the CDI unit actually decides.
EV 3 min
Our unverified shelf holds ten battery-electric records — five cars, four scooters, one motorcycle — and its price bands, range claims and estimated real-world shortfalls map the demand curve better than any registration chart could.
Price update 3 min
The entry single-motor electric SUV drops to ₹23.99 lakh in this revision’s unverified pricing, with the Shine+ closing at ₹25.99 lakh; battery, range and equipment are untouched and the catalogue still carries the old sheet.
EV 3 min
A Starry-Black-only variant of the 177 bhp, 461 km electric SUV slots over the ₹22.49 lakh Experience at ₹23.49 lakh in this launch’s unverified pricing, with no change to the battery or the drivetrain.
EV 3 min
Four import-spec variants, a 69 kWh extended-range pack claiming 476 km, 10-80 percent charging in about 26 minutes, and a cabin that deletes the instrument cluster entirely.
