Tata Motors now bets on super fuel-efficient car

Breaking engineering design and price barriers was not enough for Tata Motors when it displayed the Rs 1-lakh Nano at the Delhi Auto Expo in January 2008. Now, India?s largest commercial vehicle maker has entered an automotive contest in the US for which it will develop an e-drive micro car and an electric hybrid?which, according to the contest rules, should be able to achieve 100 miles per gallon energy equivalent and also have a mass appeal.

According to the New York-based Progressive Automotive, Tata Motors UK has signed a letter of intent to participate in the contest ?designed to inspire a new generation of viable, super fuel-efficient vehicles?. Apart from being fast, these cars should also have mass appeal so that consumers must want to buy them and competitors must have the capacity to mass produce them, said Progressive Automotive in a statement posted on its website.

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