Desk: Ratan Tata, who made ‘Tata’ a global brand, may have left us today, but many companies and products born of their visionary thinking are part of the lives of people. Then whether it is to make a global company like TCS, to convert Tata Motors to a passenger vehicle company from a truck -making company or to make a dream car like Tata Nano keeping in mind the need of the common man. By the way, despite all this, a dream of Ratan Tata is still incomplete.
Ratan Tata used to like his dream car Tata Nano so much that he wanted to develop it as a future car. Ratan Tata used to roam this car often at the last time of his life, while he could comfortably roam in the car of Jaguar Land Rover (Tata Group’s company). Even in his last period, he was working on a project to convert it into a future car.
Nano was an excellent commutor vehicle for Ratan Tata, so he was working on converting this car into an electric car for the future world. He was confident that in the coming years the world would start running on electric vehicles. Therefore, he named this project as NEO EV.
Ratan Tata started the project to convert Tata Nano into electric vehicle around 2015. He was in favor of putting it in two variants. One city tour range i.e. with low battery packs, the other long root variant, meaning a little longer electric car. Ratan Tata was working closely with a startup company in Coimbatore. An anecdote associated with this is also connected to the Bhavish Aggarwal of Ola Electric.
On the death of Ratan Tata, the founder of Ola Electrica Bhavish Aggarwal shared an anecdote. He said that in 2015, Ratan Tata met him and invested in his company. He was full of curiosity with electric vehicles. In the year 2017, he was called by Ratan Tata and called him to Mumbai. He later took him to Coimbatore on his plane.
Bhavish Aggarwal told that Ratan Tata only told him to come to Mumbai, from where he wants to take him to a new place. His personal project to make Tata Nano electric vehicles was going on in Coimbatore. Bhavish Aggarwal says that in reality ‘Ola Electric’ started on the same day.
