Tata Motors has emerged as the leading electric car manufacturer in the country. The company has achieved this feat by offering a profound electric car portfolio across a wide range of sizes, body styles and price brackets. Thus accelerating India’s electric mobility advancements. Till now, Harrier EV was the company’s flagship EV, but will soon be joined by its sibling.
We’re talking about the Safari EV, which will be positioned as Harrier EV’s 7-seater alternative, just like it is in the ICE segment. Tata Safari EV is expected to be launched around Diwali (festive season) and it will rival the likes of Mahindra XEV 9S and upcoming Vinfast VF MPV 7 (Limo Green). Let’s take a closer look.
Tata Safari EV Incoming
Harrier and Safari have been Tata Motors’ flagship duo in the ICE segment. While Harrier is the 5-seater SUV with only two rows of seating, Safari gets three rows of seating. In the company’s EV side of the business, only Harrier EV existed and now, the company will offer Safari EV as well. When launched, Safari EV will be Tata’s first-ever three-row EV.
Speaking of launch, Tata Motors is expected to launch it around the festive season, near Diwali time. Production is said to start around August 2026. Internally, Safari EV project is called Tayrona and may be positioned on the same acti.ev+ platform as Harrier EV.
Where design is concerned, one can expect similar design changes that Tata gave Harrier EV. So, a closed-off grille and slightly redesigned bumper along with new alloy wheel design may be on the menu. Tata is likely to retain much of the, if not, all of the interiors from current Safari ICE SUV, which was the strategy with Harrier EV and Harrier ICE.
However, Safari EV will benefit from TIDAL architecture (Tata Intelligent Digital Architecture Layer) from Harrier EV with features like auto park assist, 540-degree cameras, off-road assist, summon mode, more advanced ADAS features and more.
What to expect?
One can expect a similar set of battery options as Harrier EV with upcoming Tata Safari EV. These include 65 kWh and 75 kWh battery options with range of up to 627 km (with Harrier EV). Similar to Harrier EV, lower variants with 65 kWh battery could get single-motor RWD and higher variants with 75 kWh battery may get dual motor QWD system.
Tata Motors does not give out a total system power output with Harrier EV, but they quote total system peak output of 504 Nm. Rear motor is rated at 238 PS and front motor is rated at 158 PS and these cannot be added to arrive at 396 PS. Similar numbers could be ported over to Safari EV as well. 100 kW DC fast charging is likely too.
Currently, Safari is the only Tata Motors offering which does not have an EV counterpart and upcoming Safari EV will fix that. Currently, Harrier EV prices range between Rs 21.49 lakh and Rs 28.99 lakh (Ex-sh). One can expect Safari EV to be priced a little higher.
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Source: Electric - rushlane.com
