Making of an ‘all reason’ electric Vehicle

Mahindra Reva (Earlier Reva Electric Car Company) has been pioneering the development of electric vehicles in India. The `decade long' experience of putting over 4500 Reva cars on the road in 24 different countries has given Reva a unique `insider view' into the changing context of mobility around the world. The evolving new mobility context uniquely places electric vehicles to signify disruptive changes in the automotive DNA. This also necessitates taking a fresh look at the philosophies of designing new generation electric vehicles. The very reason for Electric vehicles to exist goes beyond the well articulated environmental advantages. These include making changes in every aspect, starting with the very way mobility is perceived to the way solutions are designed, manufactured and used. At Mahindra Reva, practice of these philosophies has been distilled into simple articulations of the 5Cs. This paper presents the implementation of these philosophies in a new electric car developed for `all reasons'. The car is named e2O (E-To-Oh) and will be referred to as such in the rest of the paper.