About this site

This site exists because the coverage of India's incoming new-energy vehicles was, for a long time, either a lightly reworded press release or an unsourced rumour with a launch date attached. Neither helps someone deciding whether to spend twenty or thirty lakh rupees. We publish our own working — the spec sheets read line by line, the range figures converted into what they mean on an Indian road in May, the state road-tax notifications read in full — because that was the material we wanted and could not find in one place.

The editorial scope is deliberately narrow. We cover new-energy vehicles headed for the Indian market — currently the Jetour T2, the Jaecoo J5 and the iCAR V23 — plus the ownership questions that sit underneath any electric or hybrid purchase in India: charging access, cost per kilometre, battery care in extreme heat, and the state-by-state incentive structure that can swing the on-road price of the same car by two lakh rupees.

Our research process is unglamorous. Specifications come from manufacturer material, homologation filings and published technical documentation, and we say which. Where a figure is a manufacturer claim on a particular test cycle, we name the cycle, because NEDC, MIDC and WLTP are not interchangeable and treating them as such is how range disappointment happens. Where a number is our own estimate — real-world range, expected pricing, likely battery chemistry — it is labelled as an estimate with the reasoning shown, so you can disagree with the assumption rather than the conclusion.

How we evaluate electric and hybrid vehicles follows from that. We weight the things that decide ownership in India rather than the things that photograph well: whether the pack chemistry suits daily full charging in 45°C heat, whether the DC charging curve holds or tapers early, what the car does at a sustained 100 km/h rather than on a certification cycle, and how deep the service network is in the city where the car will actually live. Feature counts and screen sizes matter less to us than they do to a brochure, and we will say so.

We publish nothing on behalf of a manufacturer or dealer. We do not accept payment for coverage, we do not take pre-booking money or deposits of any kind, and we have no commercial relationship with any of the companies whose products we write about. The site is supported by advertising, which is disclosed in our privacy and cookie policies. When we get something wrong we correct it in place and mark the article as updated rather than quietly editing it.

Alongside the model coverage we publish long-form ownership guides — charging economics, battery care, state incentives and powertrain comparisons.

If a figure here is wrong, we want to know. Corrections are published in place with the update date shown rather than edited away silently. A public contact channel is being set up; until it is live, corrections can be raised through the launch-alert form, which reaches the same inbox.