2025 Auto Expo: Here’s everything we know about the Tata Harrier.ev

While the Tata Sierra stole the show at the Tata Motors pavilion at the 2025 Auto Expo, there was also another product that was unveiled and this was the equally-important Tata Harrier.ev. Like the name suggests, the Harrier.ev is the electric version of the popular Harrier SUV, and it has been a long time coming. On the sidelines of the Harrier.ev’s unveiling, we spoke to Vivek Srivatsa, chief commercial officer, Tata Passenger Electric Mobility (TPEM) and Anand Kulkarni, vice president, passenger electric vehicles, Tata Motors, to get their thoughts on the electric SUV.

The Harrier.ev finds itself to be the first-mover in its segment, a segment that it has created by itself, and to help us understand the rationale behind introducing the SUV, Srivatsa said that, “So far, it (EVs) has been little, I would say, on two sides of the scale. Either affordability and ease of driving has been on one side. On the other side, it has been out and out in terms of technology. But the Harrier.ev brings a little bit of versatility. It is one car where you can use it daily to work or daily to go to family functions. But, when you want to really unleash the power side, the versatility side, Harrier.ev gives it.” Srivatsa explains that this kind of multi-functionality has not been seen in any EV in the country, and he also confirmed that it features an AWD powertrain.

When asked about why the Harrier was chosen to be electrified and not the Safari instead, Srivatsa went on to say that, “With the kind of power and package, initially, we thought the Harrier will be able to deliver it more. In the case of Safari, in our portfolio, it plays a different role. But, right now, for the kind of performance we want to showcase, Harrier does a better job.”

We also asked Anand Kulkarni, Chief Products Officer, Head of HV Programs and Customer Service, TPEM about the challenges of electrifying the Harrier.ev, and Kulkarni said, “If you see the Harrier, the time that it was made, it was on a D8 (JLR) platform. But, the D8 platform itself underwent a significant change to make it into the Harrier. If we had chosen to do it in the same way as we had done the Nexon (EV), it would have still existed on the conversion approach. And then, the conversion approach would not have allowed you to really extract the best out of what we would have wanted.” This is why the Harrier.ev is based on the Acti.ev Plus platform, and not the regular combustion platform that the ICE Harrier is based on. Kulkarni goes on to explain by saying, “It essentially opens up the space for a more orthogonal, more standardised battery. It gives you the ability to liberate more space for battery capacity, standardising of battery modules, standardising of battery cells, etc. And, it has to also open up space for the ability to do all wheel drive, for example. So, you have to open up the entire platform.”

Kulkarni added that the Harrier.ev is natively a rear wheel drive, with a front motor to assist and provide AWD capability. The rear now gets a multi-link suspension, while the coaxial gearbox means that there are packaging efficiencies and better layout efficiencies on the Harrier.ev, which liberate space at the front. “So you will see that despite having a front unit, it has enough space for a great frunk and so on and so forth. In that sense, it is a completely different architecture now. We have retained the exterior image of the Harrier because that is still possible to adopt, but it is a pure EV architecture,” Kulkarni said. He also confirmed that the Harrier.ev will be available with two battery capacities. “We will probably do a 60-ish kWh hour battery and we will do a mid-70s-ish kWh battery.” Kulkarni also went on to tell us that the C75 range of the Harrier.ev would be about 500km. Meanwhile the power and torque output of this SUV stands at a claimed 275kW (369bhp) and 500Nm respectively.

The introduction of the Harrier.ev will definitely help Tata Motors leapfrog ahead of its rivals, and Kulkarni also claimed that the capabilities of the Harrier.ev will be pretty good. While only a drive of the SUV will help us verify that claim, it is great to see a home-grown manufacturer like Tata take on the competition head-on with its offerings.