{"id":49138,"date":"2023-05-08T09:03:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T13:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=49138"},"modified":"2023-05-08T09:03:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T13:03:31","slug":"mg-motor-china-launches-cheap-ev-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=49138","title":{"rendered":"MG Motor Launches Cheapest EV In India, Less Than $10K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China-based MG Motor recently brought to market the cheapest EV in India. MG Motor is owned by China&#8217;s SAIC Motor and competes in India against automakers, including Tata Motors, among others.<\/p>\n<p>We often talk about <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/news\/category\/china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-inline-widget=\"internal-links\">China<\/a> being the world&#8217;s largest EV market and a current hot spot for EVs. The country&#8217;s local automakers have been successful to launch affordable EVs, and now yet another Chinese company is reaching the world&#8217;s third-largest auto market. However, many of the local electric cars you&#8217;ll find in China and India aren&#8217;t the type that would appeal to most Americans.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>Autocar<\/em>, the MG Motor Comet EV \u2013 which is actually\u00a0a rebadged <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/news\/590704\/wuling-air-ev-debuts-indonesia-brand-third-micro-ev\/\" data-inline-widget=\"internal-links\" data-type-id=\"0\" data-params=\"%7B%22article_edition_id%22%3A%22590704%22%2C%22section%22%3A%221%22%2C%22alias%22%3A%22wuling-air-ev-debuts-indonesia-brand-third-micro-ev%22%7D\">Wuling Air EV<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 is a two-door with four seats. If you didn&#8217;t know what you were looking at, you might initially guess that it&#8217;s some variation of a <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/smart\/fortwo-ed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-inline-widget=\"internal-links\">Smart ForTwo<\/a>. It has\u00a0<span>230\u00a0kilometers (143 miles) of estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/news\/category\/range-efficiency\/\" data-inline-widget=\"internal-links\" data-type-id=\"8\" data-params=\"%7B%22section_route%22%3A%22news%22%2C%22alias%22%3A%22range-efficiency%22%7D\">driving range<\/a> and starts at just\u00a0<\/span><span>798,000 rupees ($9,763). For comparison, Tata&#8217;s Tiago EV starts at\u00a0<\/span><span>849,000 rupees ($10,400). However, it&#8217;s a four-door with a bit more range (<\/span><span>250-315 kilometers).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While a tiny two-door city car might not appeal to most folks in the US (EVs on our shores are going in the other direction, from small, impractical, and polarizing to large, family-friendly, and easy to like), it might be a solid option for commuters in India due to the country&#8217;s busy roads and cities. Chief of MG Motor India\u00a0<span>Rajeev Chaba shared, via <em>Autoblog<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"5\">\n<p><em>&#8220;It is for those who are looking for a smart solution to combat today&#8217;s urban mobility issues.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<section class=\"relatedContent-new\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\" data-widget=\"related-content\" data-widget-size=\"content\" data-params=\"%7B%22type_id%22%3A0%2C%22title_id%22%3A%22%22%2C%22items%22%3A%5B%7B%22article_edition_id%22%3A%22613132%22%2C%22title%22%3A%22Tata%20Motors%20Launches%20Extremely%20Affordable%20City%20EV%20In%20India%22%2C%22alias%22%3A%22tata-motors-tiago-affordable-ev-launched%22%2C%22section%22%3A%221%22%2C%22is_video%22%3A%220%22%2C%22images%22%3A%7B%22s5%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.motor1.com%2Fimages%2Fmgl%2FE6wwPq%2Fs5%2Ftata-tiago-ev.jpg%22%7D%7D%2C%7B%22article_edition_id%22%3A%22582701%22%2C%22title%22%3A%22India%20Still%20Doesn%E2%80%99t%20Want%20Tesla%20Importing%20Cars%20From%20China%22%2C%22alias%22%3A%22india-tesla-market-entry-situation%22%2C%22section%22%3A%221%22%2C%22is_video%22%3A%220%22%2C%22images%22%3A%7B%22s5%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.motor1.com%2Fimages%2Fmgl%2FKy2oq%2Fs5%2Ftesla-showroom.jpg%22%7D%7D%5D%7D\">   <\/section>\n<p>MG Motor also sells a larger fully electric crossover in India. The automaker estimates that this year some 25 to 30% of its total sales in the country will be electric cars.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 4 million cars were sold in India last year, and only 2% of those were electric models. Tata Motors was the leader for the year, though <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/byd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-inline-widget=\"internal-links\">BYD<\/a> also brought its first EV to market in India in 2022. The Chinese company aims to grab 40% of all EV market share in the country by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s\u00a0<span>Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s administration hopes to boost EVs to 30% of all vehicle sales in the area by 2030. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@autocarindia1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Autocar India<\/em><\/a>&#8216;s video review of the Comet EV below:<\/span><\/p>\n<section contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\" data-widget=\"video\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sizer\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAYAAAA7KqwyAAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAABpJREFUeNpi\/P\/\/PwMlgImBQjBqwLAwACDAAOVfAw9\/ZDvcAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"636\" title=\"MG Comet EV review - Is it the ideal city car? | First Drive | Autocar India\" width=\"1131\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/watS4IoAq68\" data-src-param=\"\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China-based MG Motor recently brought to market the cheapest EV in India. MG Motor is owned by China&#8217;s SAIC Motor and competes in India against automakers, including Tata Motors, among others. We often talk about China being the world&#8217;s largest EV market and a current hot spot for EVs. The country&#8217;s local automakers have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}