Tatas electric car by Sept; Nano in US,Thailand

Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata has said that Tata Motors would roll out an electric car in September this year.

Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata has said that Tata Motors would roll out an electric car in September this year. We will have an electric car in the market in September, Tata was quoted as saying by Cornell University on its micro-blogging feed on Twitter. Tata is also a Cornell trustee.

He talked about the electric car at the Cornell Global Forum on Sustainable Global Enterprise organised by the university. Speaking at the annual general meeting of Tata Motors in 2008,Tata had said that the company was developing an electric car. Foreign media also reported quoting Tata at the forum that Tata Nano,dubbed as the worlds cheapest car,was expected to be available in the US in the next two years.

A Thai investment agency official said Nano might drive into the Thai and other markets in the South East Asia. They (Tata Motors) have plans to introduce Tata Nano in future (in Thailand) for the economic segment of the market and probably plan to expand by taking it to neighbouring countries in Asean, Thailand Board of Investment secretary General Atchaka Brimble said in New Delhi. Thai industry minister Chanchai Chairungruang visited Tata Motors Pune plant yesterday.

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The much-awaited Nano was commercially launched in March in India and is expected to hit the roads soon.

According to the Cornell University website,the Tata Education and Development Trust committed $50 million to Cornell in October 2008 to establish the Tata Scholarship Fund for students from India and the Tata-Cornell Initiative in Agriculture and Nutrition,intended to improve the lives of Indias rural poor.

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