[UD17]

Originally Posted by newenergy

they did not do their prior research and rather opted to be tacky which was the worse decision IMO.

Do you really think this was the reason? Its all well thought of and well executed, i must say. They had earned a great free advertise & coverage about this new offering and if they happen to rename in future, they will save few INRs by removing 'e'

[newenergy]

Originally Posted by UD17

Do you really think this was the reason? Its all well thought of and well executed, i must say. They had earned a great free advertise & coverage about this new offering and if they happen to rename in future, they will save few INRs by removing 'e'

I doubt it is the case. They did confirm the renaming in a recent post on X and they will still challenge it in court. So there goes some more INR . For the short term till the fight goes on, it is BE 6.

[07CR]

Originally Posted by Rahulk302

Charger wiring will be from the meter. Maharashtra has EV charger installation policy where you can install Single phase 7kw charger at fixed unit prices for EV charging. Mahindra will offer you both 7kw and a 11kw charger option. If you have a closed parking in your society, i suggest you opt for a 7kw charger option with a separate meter as per state policy.

Do you mean to say installing a 7Kw charger doesn't require any permissions from government and can be easily done just like the 15A socket ? If yes, that's a good middle ground.

If No, Any idea if Mahindra takes up the responsibility in that case or is it the home owners responsibility to obtain the necessary permissions from electricity board ?

[Rahulk302]

Originally Posted by 07CR

Do you mean to say installing a 7Kw charger doesn't require any permissions from government and can be easily done just like the 15A socket ? If yes, that's a good middle ground.

If No, Any idea if Mahindra takes up the responsibility in that case or is it the home owners responsibility to obtain the necessary permissions from electricity board ?

No. I am saying that it has now become easy to install a 7kw charger thanks to state Govt policy. Earlier there used to be roadblocks and no proper guidelines. Hence many societies would straight away deny such installation. Now it has become more easy to convince them.

You have to apply for a permission to install the setup from your respective electricity board. The electricity board will install the wiring and meter. Its a straight forward online application process. Once the meter is installed, Mahindra will take care of installing the wiring and charger from that meter to your parking spot.

[hot_wheels]

Originally Posted by sri_tesla

Mahindra renamed BE 6e as BE 6.

Thank you, Indigo, for indirectly nudging Mahindra towards a saner name for their first 'BE' car. From sounding super cheesy to now almost classy 'BE 6 (will be called B6 in parlance'), it does justice to the otherwise perfect car.

Mahindra's car names are always over the top and lack class IMO. Calling '5 double O, 7 double O' instead of simply 'hundred'; 'Scorpio' is fine, but why 'Scrorpio N'? Doesn't make any sense and sounds tacky. OTOH, Tata has mostly been spot on with their names, keeping them simple and short, which roll off the tongue well and are easily identifiable. I Hope Mahindra learns a lesson here and transforms their naming schemes for the better, like how they have been doing with their cars and engines.

[Gixxy.danger]

Bold move by Mahindra with the design and performance being offered! I do really think this is going to start the change in the traffic demography in tier 1 cities. Hyderabad in that matter has significantly positive adoption of EVs.

I think we do need to give due credit to BYD for entering India, bringing along non-traditional designs and performance setup. It has enabled our domestic manufacturer to step up and provide bold (Statement making products) e.g. Curvv and BE twins.


Really excited to see these on roads.

[wooka]

Originally Posted by PreludeSH

No cupholder for front passenger because they had to give that separator is awful. It also makes it really difficult for passenger to reach anything below the dash area.

For what it's worth, I love the partition. I have a antsy cat that walks all over the damn place when I drive. Having that partition allows me to screen that place off. I don't have a significant issue with the Scorpio-N or Thar '22 cause there's a transmission tunnel. However, with born EVs, I have to worry about my cat getting near the pedals and I have 0 dominion on stopping her if she gets past my left knee.

So the plastic panel helps me significantly. And frankly makes the AC more effective for an engaged driver, which totally makes it my groove

[abhinavj01]

Originally Posted by hot_wheels

Mahindra's car names are always over the top and lack class IMO. Calling '5 double O, 7 double O' instead of simply 'hundred'; 'Scorpio' is fine, but why 'Scrorpio N'? Doesn't make any sense and sounds tacky. OTOH, Tata has mostly been spot on with their names, keeping them simple and short, which roll off the tongue well and are easily identifiable. I Hope Mahindra learns a lesson here and transforms their naming schemes for the better, like how they have been doing with their cars and engines.

The "double O" was to try and stick to their nomenclature of car names ending with O (Bolero/Xylo/Quanto and the likes). Thar was an exception
With EV's, i guess, they wanted to follow nomenclature of car names ending with "E"

[07CR]

So I was watching videos of drive to death of Zigwheels where they start the car with 100 % or near 100 % charge and drive them out to death, i.e. 0 %. They don't engage in hypermiling and drive as per normal conditions with AC ON, and even setting the regen mode to something normal.

With Ionic 5's 72.6Kwh battery they managed a range of about 435 Kms. This drive included about three inclines (and the associated declines), city traffic, highway drive and the other normal conditions. Similar drive was conducted with the EV6 and it with its slightly higher battery pack (77.4 KwH) managed a 502 Km range.

Video links-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCsht34BqmQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS9HdhEZnOo

With a larger battery back of 79 KwH, can we expect a realistic range of about 530 Km in above scenarios from the BE 6E and about 515 from XEV 9E? In hypermiling terms, I think both can cross even 630 Kms realistically?

[wooka]

Will anyone speak on the V2V and V2L aspects 9f this car already. With any EV, I must find out how to get a 'jumpstart' to the next station. Mahindra RSA has proven to be useless historically.. So I need to know my options before I embark on a fuel option that is not refillable via a Jerry can.

[aweracker]

Originally Posted by efgritesh

Isn't that a top up of 100+ KM for everynight charge for ~9hrs?

I have seen many people shying away from 15 AMP scoket based charging and spending time and effort to get 7KW/11KW chargers in apartment parking, while i understand that it will be better to have 11KW charger as backup but for everyday city use isnt 100+ km sufficient, or am I missing soemtihng?

LFP batteries I read should be charged 100% if you can at one go. Their life is better but yes at the same time LFPs lose 4-5% life in 6 years at most, stretching even to 10 years with just 5% loss in capacity.

[efgritesh]

Originally Posted by aweracker

LFP batteries I read should be charged 100% if you can at one go. Their life is better but yes at the same time LFPs lose 4-5% life in 6 years at most, stretching even to 10 years with just 5% loss in capacity.

I saw this in one the youtube blogs as well, with same reasonining. Although, my quick google research suggests that "LFP batteries hold up better to high states of charge, meaning that regularly charging them to 100% may not cause as much degradation as it would with a different battery chemistry". But I read it as we can charge to 100% but this isn't a must do thing. Anyway if you plug in to 15 amp socket regularly (i.e. say around 50-60% charge remaining), you might as well end up with 100% every time you charge.

Does this makes sense?

[aweracker]

Originally Posted by efgritesh

I saw this in one the Youtube blogs as well, with same reasonining. Although, my quick google research suggests that "LFP batteries hold up better to high states of charge, meaning that regularly charging them to 100% may not cause as much degradation as it would with a different battery chemistry". But I read it as we can charge to 100% but this isn't a must do thing. Anyway if you plug in to 15 amp socket regularly (i.e. say around 50-60% charge remaining), you might as well end up with 100% every time you charge.

Does this makes sense?

It does. Also I don't think you should worry much if you want to get the car.

Given that Mahindra has come with disruptive pricing. I think people would honestly consider EVs now.

My closest friend might cancel his 4 door Thar if the car has good initial reviews after launch.

His logic was that 285BHP is enough to get the car, and also the range will allow him to do 500-600km highway runs with a single short stop.

Plus you make a big payment once, then monthly charging would be between 500 (at home) to 2000 (from commercial outlets). Which is way lower than ICE.

We both stay in Bangalore and here ICE and EV are priced same spec-to-spec so it's a no brainer.

Finally, consider this, EVs will only get popular more in 2025, and you'll see a lot of offices, residential areas and more get AC options with 10-12 per KW rates.

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Friends, any idea when will it hit the showrooms ?

[PMK-MoJo]

Happenstance at its Peak 😀 !!

Accompanied my BIL for the PDI of his XUV 700 AX7L AWD to the yard and eventually ended up spending more time ogling and testing out the BE 6 (lol).

As a normal everyday driver, I find the Driver cockpit unlike anything in the market, Infact me using the word cockpit itself says it all 🙌🏻

Few quick observations:-

1. I am 6 ft tall, view of front bonnet is not visible at lower seat positions.
2. ⁠Back seat has poor thigh support
3. ⁠Door opening 90 degree is both a boon and bane, really an exercise to bend over and close it !!
4. ⁠I loved the trunk, the photo says it all 😀