Imagine a car which costs less than even INR one lakh, of course excluding taxes. Since Tata Motors announced its much-in-focus small car, Nano, many small cars have been queuing up in that range. Tara Tiny is also one of the small cars which are being designed for low-end segment. Like its cute name, car also looks pretty in its small box. Tata Tiny is a car from Tara International, an automobile company in Bengal. They claim that this is going to be the cheapest small car in the world. Tara International is the subsidiary of Bengal Enamel.

The most noteworthy point about this car is it is not only priced low but this is designed to have low operating costs too. The special feature of Tara Tiny is it is s battery operated car. This is green car which doe not produce any pollution of any kind. The operating cost of this car comes at 50-70 paise per km. Sounds interesting!

Tara International is manufacturing car in partnership with Chinese company, Aucma. Aucma is the leading electrical vehicles and Appliance Company. It is Aucma which will be supplying majority of components of this car. This four-seater car will be in the market in another 4-5 months. It will be manufactured at Tara International factory at Palta, at small distance from Kolkata.

You can expect that a speed of 50-70 km /hr from this car. This car can be recharged at 220 volt, using 15 amp sockets. Other cars planned by Tara International are Tara Titu, Tara Mini and Tara Micro.Tara Shuttle and Tara Carriers are the two other cars priced much higher at INR 500,000. All of these are battery operated.

After charging once for 8-hours, Tara Tiny can drive you around for about 80-100km. pretty good! This car is designed to run within cities. This is an A-segment hatchback car. Engine of this car produces maximum power output of 3 KW and torque of 6V*10. Pick up is good. It has front disc brakes and rear drum brakes. It is equipped with 3 automatic gears. Kerb weight of this tiny car is just 850Kg. It has Battery capacity of 200/Ah.

As the car is minimally priced, you can not expect much in terms of facilities, forget about luxuries. But yes, this car does not lack anything on utility like it has manual central locking, manual driver seat adjustment and fog lamps. If you want to drive car without adding to the pollution to the atmosphere, this Car can be your favorite.