Bengal is coming with Tara Tiny, a car which could give the Nano a run for its money, literally. And, to top that, it’s a battery-operated green car which will cost just around 50-70 paise for every km. Tara International, an arm of the Bengal Enamel, is coming out with the world’s cheapest car with a cheeky Rs 99,999 price tag. Tara has teamed up with China’s $1.5-billion Aucma, a leading player in the electrical vehicles and appliances segment, to source components for this dream car.
When Colonel Dwijendra Bhattacharya set up Bengal Enamel in 1921 with nationalist leader Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy as its chairman to make enamelled ware, plates, mugs and waterbottles for households and the army, none had imagined that Bhattacharya’s grandson Tara S Ganguly would conjure up an auto project 90 years down the road. The company had downed shutters in 1991, buffeted by competition and gone the BIFR way.
Thus, even as Bengal charts the revival path, a leading homegrown Raj era corporate brand has turned around in its own way. Today, Bengal Enamel has seven outfits in its stable with interests that spread across new-age areas like animation, computer games and telecom towers among other ventures.
But now, get ready for Tara’s Tiny and a mix of electrical vehicles. Going by plans, the four-seater Tiny should roll out in the next four to five months. In step, the company targets to unveil three other electric car labels which will be branded as Tara Titu, Tara Micro and Tara Mini. “At the moment, we have decided on brand names for only the cars. Together with the cars, there are also buses on the anvil. Initially, 60-70% of the components will be imported in CKD condition from China’s Aucma.
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Tara Tiny to be cheaper than Nano
Move over Nano. A cheaper car will soon hit the Indian roads.
Priced at Rs 99,999, the four-seater Tara Tiny will be a battery-powered vehicle, said a recent report in the
Economic Times.
Kolkata-based Tara International has teamed up with China's Aucma, a leading player in the electrical vehicles and appliances segment, to manufacture this car.
The company plans to launch Tara Tiny by June this year.
Any photographs of the Tara Tiny prototype have not yet been made available.
Besides Tara Tiny, three more cars -- Tara Titu, Tara Micro and Tara Mini -- are also in the pipeline, said the
ET report. The ex-showroom prices of these Tara cars will be between Rs 99,999 and Rs 500,000.
The vehicles can be recharged daily at 220 volts through a 15 amp socket. The electrical vehicles business is seen to generate a turnover of Rs 15 crore (Rs 150 million) in 2008-09 and about Rs 50 crore (Rs 500 million) in the second year.
According to Tara Shankar Ganguly, the group chairman, the company also has plans to introduce buses and electrically power two- and three-wheelers.
While the two-wheelers will be in the range of Rs 9,999 to Rs 30,000, the three-wheelers are likely to be priced between Rs 85,000 and Rs 180,000.
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This is what I came across at Rediff about the TARA Tiny - The electric car!
Tara Tiny @ Rs 99K is the world's cheapest car!
Rediff, March 17, 2008
Specifications of Tara Tiny are as follows:
No of seats: 4
Net weight: 850 kg
Wheel base: 2150 mm
Maximum speed: 50 km/hour
Maximum grade ability: 15%
Motor power: 3 kw
Battery voltage: 6V*10
Recharge duration: 8 hours
Driving charge: 120 km
Ground clearance: 150/mm
Running cost: 40 p/km
Battery capacity: 200/Ah
Tara Tiny can needs 8 hours of charging to travel 80 kms