EVs for personal use driving sales despite Covid-19 pandemic: Tata Motors

The move towards electric vehicles (EVs) has not taken a beating despite the pandemic and has, in fact, seen a sharp increase in the personal use segment.

Sales to fleet owners or operators, however, fell 82 per cent to 109 units in the first six months of this financial year against 605 last year.

The EV market has grown 140 per cent.

Employee transport and the e-mobility segment comprise the fleet segment while the personal segment is individual purchases.

The fall in the fleet segment was more than recouped by sales in the personal use segment, Shailesh Chandra, president (passenger