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My Tata Curvv EV: Key observations 3 weeks & 800 km into ownership

8th January 2025, 13:05 by Deepankar Sadekar

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Range is averaging at 350kms in peak ORR traffic, I am really happy with it.

BHPian ElNovato recently shared this with other enthusiasts:

Completed 800 kms with the Tata Curvv.EV.

Driving this car has been fun, similar experience as mentioned in this thread by many members.

I would like to highlight a few observations, after driving the car for 3 weeks.

Interiors - Its a step up from the older Tata's but for me coming from MG Astor, it feels like a downgrade. The hard dash, missing cup holders, overall feel of the plastics and buttons which are not as well put together as they were in the Astor.
Phygital controls - Physical + Digital controls on the center console are inconvenient, need to leave my fingers hanging till I find the correct touch button. I am so glad the AC fan speed, and temperature control buttons are physical.
Ventilated seats - I am enjoying this one. For my first car, bought the launch model of Astor, which did not have this. It has a huge impact on my overall mood, that gush of cold air keeps me calm when I am navigating through Bengaluru ORR traffic everyday. One nitpick though, the button to enable this is easy to reach, but difficult to see at what level is the cooling set. If the ventilated seats prompt could show up on the infotainment, it would be great.

ADAS -

AEB - Automatic Emergency Braking is a little bit harsh when moving in bumper to bumper traffic. Errs sometimes when the car is rolling down from the flyover in the last section where the angle induces some error in calculation. Also, its enabled by default on every restart, and I tend to forget to disable this. So I have now started leaving more space in the front as a precaution to avoid that hard stop.
LDW + LKA - With this enabled, I realised that after overtaking slow moving trucks I used to skip toggling the indicator and just come back to the lane. But with this feature, steering offers resistance, and continuously displays lane departure warning, if indicator is not used. I do not miss indicators now for lane change. Its irritating though, when we just have to go 1 feet beyond the lane, to avoid some vehicle which is driving on the lane marking.
ACC - Adaptive cruise control is amazing. In most of my drives in the previous car, the Cruise Control had to be halted due to a slow moving vehicle at an intersection or rumbler strips. ACC solves that issue.

Efficiency - Range is averaging at 350kms in peak ORR traffic, I am really happy with it. I was burning 5-6 litres on the Astor every day, on Curvv just 12-13% battery is consumed in 1 day of commute.

Last Friday, washed the car myself, and early morning on the Saturday, took it out to nearby highways in order to get some nice shots. Here are the resultant pics :