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REPORT: GM mulling Tata Nano competitor in Asia

2010 Chevy Spark - Click for high-res image gallery What will the world's cheapest car, the Tata Nano, do to the auto market? Bring friends. We're hearing that General Motors could be planning a Tata Nano competitor that would go on sale in Asia for under $4,000. GM's new executive vice president for international operations, Nick Reilly, told the Wall Street Journal that offering an ultra-cheap car the low-cost space is of interest to the automaker, but only in certain markets. The manufacturer would likely be SAIC-GM-Wuling Automotive ... Read more →

REPORT: With Fiat's help, Tata could sell the Nano in Latin America Xavier Navarro

Tata Nano - Click for high-res image gallery We knew that the famous – and now available – $2,500 Indian car was heading to Europe and the United States. The next market where the ...

First Tata Nano delivered to customer in Mumbai Sebastian Blanco

The first customer to get a Tata Nano has taken delivery of the world's cheapest car today. Tata Motors delivered the car to Mr. Ashok Raghunath Vichare of Mumbai who paid just 100,000 rupees ...

REPORT: Tata Nano passes European crash testing Michael Harley

The Tata Nano, the diminutive Indian four-door econobox rumored to eventually arrive in U.S. showrooms, has reportedly passed current European impact testing. According to Autocar, the offset ...

Geneva 2009: Euro-spec Tata Nano (it's bigger!) and all-electric Indica Xavier Navarro

Click on image to see the three upcoming Tata Euro-spec models As we reported, Tata has an Euro-spec Nano on the works. The changes from the Indian version include adding an all-aluminium I3 MPFI ...

Video: New Nano challenger is ... a Flybo? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

A while back we gave you a heads up about a clock-making company in India which was seeking to diversify and enter the electric car business. As if that wasn't ambitious enough they made the claim, and still do, that their car would challenge the Tata Nano and sell for less than one Lakh (about ...

Tata finally selects location for Nano plant 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Do you remember the problems Tata is facing as it gets ready to build the Nano, the world's cheapest car? Well, the Indian manufacturer has now officially decided to move the location of the factory. The new plant will be built in Sanand, India (that's near Ahmedabad, in the state of Gujarat). ...

Protests against Tata Motors stop work at Nano plant 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Earlier this week, we heard rumblings that workers at the east India plant that is supposed to build the Tata Nano could be besieged by members and supporters of the opposition party in the state. Automotive News Europe now brings us an update and says that the dissatisfaction against Tata Motors ...

Tata asks Fiat for help selling the Nano 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click above image for a hi-res gallery of the Tata Nano Tata is asking Fiat to assist in selling the Nano overseas, as an expansion of the two marques partnership in manufacturing and distributing cars, engines and commercial vehicles. Fiat's initial intentions are, however, largely directed ...

Catalyx Nanotech begins producing low-cost nanomaterials 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Nanotechnology holds amazing promise for many new green technologies, including the emissions controls which will allow the internal combustion engine to meet upcoming standards and the lithium ion batteries which threaten to make those same engines obsolete. There are many issues holding nano-tech ...

Tata Motors joins the Automotive X Prize with two vehicles 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Buoyed by the response to the Tata Nano (i.e., the world's cheapest car), Tata Motors Limited is ready to make the move to green. The company announced today that it will compete in the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize by entering two vehicles in the race. Well, Tata has signed a letter of ...

Tata to get class, Pininfarina to get cash in Indian design center deal 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

In what might be the most perfectest (work with me here) odd couple match-up since chocolate and peanut butter, Pininfarina, car designer extraordinaire and builder of the hydrogen fuel cell-powered Sintesi concept car (silver automotive objet d'art pictured above), with minority participation from ...

Indian bike makers working on natural gas options in response to Tata Nano 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Motorcycle, scooter and moped manufacturers in India are worried. Since Tata announced their ultra-cheap Nano, the two-wheeled industry is abuzz with worry that the populace will quickly abandon their old single-track vehicles for the safety and convenience of a four-wheeler if the price points get ...

Geneva 2008: Tata Nano is quite the hit 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

click photo to enlarge The Tata Nano, number one in the list of ten cheapest cars in the world, is a big hit at the Geneva Motor Show. Newspress is saying that the tiny and inexpensive Nano is drawing the biggest crowds at the show.The throngs aren't thronging just to see the car - we've seen it in ...

The ten cheapest cars in the world - #1 -Tata Nano 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Tata Nano: 4-door hatchback. India. $2,497. You know already the specs: 0.6 liter, 2-cyl (non-opposed), 33 HP and a fuel economy (combined) of about 5 l/100 (47 mpg). This car is well thought out, and lots of patents have been resulted from the creation process, from the Nano's powertrain to the ...

Geneva '08 Preview: 78 MPG Nano hits Europe within four years 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We got our first official look at Tata's Nano in January (and a very good unofficial look in December). Tata's Nano will make its international debut at this year's Geneva Motor Show but when will it go on sale in Europe? According to reports, Europe may have to wait up to four years for the cars ...

Videos: Ratan Tata, Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Mitt Romney 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We told you there are concerns Tata Motor's Nano will drive up oil prices. What does Tata chairman Ratan Tata think about this? In the first video below the fold, Ratan laughs it off. We told you Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, former Shell chairman said low MPG cars should be banned. Want to see Mark say ...

If successful, the Tata Nano will likely push up gas prices 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

I'm not quite sure why I put "likely" in the headline to this post. I can't think of any scenario where the ultra-cheap Tata Nano sells millions of units in India and China and other "developing" countries but doesn't have an effect on gas prices in the rest of the world. I mean, if a million more ...

Autoblog Green Podcast #17 - Coskata Energy's Bill Roe 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We're in Detroit now, but Sebastian and Sam took some time to chat about a few things before leaving for the show. Rick Wagoner's CES keynote was historic, as was the appearance of the Cadillac Provoq at that show. Coming up at Detroit we'll bring you details on all of the alternative and ...

Videos: Ratan Tata responds to ctiticisms of the Nano's safety, emissions 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

In the video above, Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata Motors, responds to critics who say the Nano is not safe and pollutes. Here's what he said yesterday: Let me assure you and also assure our critics that the car we have designed and that we will be presenting to you today will indeed meet all the ...

The World chimes in on the Tata Nano 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Earlier today, I was invited onto the BBC show World Have Your Say to discuss the just-announced Tata Nano. While the WHYS show was a full hour, but with callers from around the world, two hosts and four invited guests it moved quickly and I didn't get to make a few points that I wanted to. Thanks ...

Solar cells that work at night? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The Idaho National Laboratory, Microcontinuum, Inc. and Patrick Pinhero from the University of Missouri are developing an exciting new technology which uses "nano-antennas" to capture solar energy. What is especially cool about this new solar technology is that it would operate both during the day ...

Nano lubricant could reduce gas use 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

In just two years, a nano lubricant could be on the market that reduces gas use by 5 percent. That's Ali Erdemir in the picture. He's a slippery fellow. In 1991, he got the R&D 100, the "Oscar" of technology awards for, in Science Daily's words, "showing that microscopic particles of boric acid ...

NASA developing nanobattery 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Battery technology has come a long way. Lead acid was the best that we had for a good long while, which is why it sees use in nearly every automobile sold in the world. Now, we have the nickel based battery chemistries and the newest lithium based batteries which are expected to allow the final leap ...

University of Idaho investigating nanosprings for hydrogen storage 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Nanoscale materials are so small only an electron microscope can see them. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter. To put that into perspective, a human hair is about 80,000 nanometers wide. Two scientists at the University of Idaho are creating tiny springs of 10-40 nanometers wide. Apparently, ...


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